Authorities have released the identities of 2-Santa Cruz County men who were killed in a plane crash last week. 31-year-old Bryan McCullah resided in Santa Cruz, and 21-year-old Gabriel Suarez lived in Freedom, before they crashed in the Sierras on Friday. Suarez had rented the single-engine Piper Cherokee Arrow from Monterey Bay Aviation Incorporated’s United Flight Services. McCullah was an instructor at the flight-training and rental company. The plane took off from Watsonville Municipal airport, had landed in Auburn, and had taken off again. Hikers discovered the wreckage and the 2-bodies in the mountains near Emigrant Gap, in Placer County. The crash remains under investigation.
