“You heard the motor, the engine of the plane go pop, then you knew right then," Rick said.

The two heard another pop sound shortly after the first. Rick picked up the phone and called 911.

“There’s nothing we could’ve done. There was nothing left. There wasn’t a sign of anybody on that plane so we had no idea," Gayle said.

The others also on board that plane were jumper and crew member Mike Martin, photographer Casey Williamson, and professional parachute demonstrator Larry Lemaster.

CBS4 in Denver has confirmed two more of those lost were Bryan and Ashley Weikel, who were 'celebrating their first wedding anniversary on the island.'

A sailor assigned to U.S. Fleet Cyber Command was also onboard the plane -- 27-year-old Lt. Joshua Drablos.



The medical examiners officer says some of the identities could be officially released Monday.



The Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office ruled the cause of death for all eleven victims in the crash as "multiple blunt force injuries due to plane crash." Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will be out on the scene for the next three to four days to collect evidence.



Remains of the plane haven’t moved since Friday, but the area has been taped off for the investigation.



The some things the board will look into are -- the pilot’s training records, the plane’s inspection, maintenance records, even weather conditions at the time of the crash. “This is the deadliest accident involving a civil airplane in the United States since 2011. We’re here to determine how this happened, why it happened so we can determine what safety measures are needed to prevent it from happening again,” said Jennifer Homendy, NTSB Board Member. As for when Dillingham Airfield will reopen, NTSB’s investigator in charge say they’ll decide in a couple of days after they remove remains of the plane to a secured area.

A pilot of 30 years said, “It seems like they have more people in it than what it’s certified for. That can be allowed if you have a skydiving aircraft and you have your seats removed but you still can’t change the basic physics of the airplanes with those engines that can only lift a certain weight and if you overload that weight, that’s a problem," Ladd Sanger, aviation attorney, Slack Davis Sanger, said.

Sanger says to reduce the likelihood of a problem, pilots have a checklist before take off to make sure the plane is performing correctly.











