NTSB tents covered part of the crash site Thursday, as agents wrapped up their on-site investigation into the crash.
/ Joel Allen
Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have completed their on-scene investigation into the plane crash that killed two people Tuesday afternoon.
The wreckage of the plane has been removed from the Briarcliffe RV Resort in North Myrtle Beach.
It was about 1 p.m. Tuesday when a plane piloted by Kenneth Thode, 62, crashed into an RV, killing Eva Sullivan, 70. Thode lived in Massachusetts, and Sullivan was from New Hampshire. Sullivan's husband survived the accident but was hospitalized for burns.
A manager at the RV park says Sullivan's family will be returning to the site just Friday, since the NTSB investigators have left, to see what can be recovered from the remains of the RV.
Crime tape still surrounds the scene, but we're told that will be removed once the family is done at the site.
NTSB Investigator-in-Charge Todd Gunther says the team and the plane are on the way back to Washington DC, where they can re-examine the remains of the plane under controlled conditions.
What they've found out so far is that there's no sign that any of the plane's flight controls, engine or instruments were not working properly.
Their preliminary report will be out in a week or so. Gunther said it could take up to a year to complete what's called a statement of probable cause.
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