3 dead in small plane crash in Reno were bound for Bay Area

RENO, Nev. — Three people who died in a small plane crash into a vehicle parking lot at Reno-Tahoe International Airport had been headed to the San Francisco Bay Area, an airport official said Monday. The identities of the victims weren’t immediately made public by the Washoe County coroner’s office. But airport spokesman Brian Kulpin said the single-engine Piper Cherokee that crashed on takeoff Sunday evening had been bound for San Carlos, California. Several vehicles in the p