MONTANA (WRBL) — The Auburn University aviation community is mourning the loss of one of its own after a recent graduate and flight instructor was killed in a plane crash in Montana that also claimed the lives of her father, sister, and family dog.

According to investigators, 23-year-old Lainey Anderson, a certified flight instructor at Sanders Aviation in Jasper, Alabama, died Friday when the twin-engine Piper Aztec she was traveling in went down in a remote area of the Bob Marshall Wilderness of northwestern Montana.

Officials say Anderson’s father, Mark Anderson, who was piloting the aircraft, her younger sister Ellie Anderson, and the family’s dog were also killed. The family was traveling together when radar contact was lost around 4:30 p.m. Friday. Search crews located the wreckage

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