Small plane crashes in Eastern Oregon, kills 2 people

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a fatal plane crash in eastern Oregon killed two people including a retired Idaho doctor.

The Baker County Sheriff’s Office says 77-year-old William J. Watts and 70-year-old Mihoko Matsuda Nelsen were identified as the two passengers killed when a small passenger airplane nosedived into a hay field in Baker City on Saturday.

Dr. Charles Davis with the Saint Alphonsus Medical Group told the Idaho Press in an emailed statement that Nelsen was a neurologist