Ridgefield, Conn. Mourns Students Killed In Weekend Plane Crash, Car Wreck

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Two freshmen from Colgate University have been killed after their small plane crashed in a wooded area in rural upstate New York.

University officials and the Madison County Sheriff's Office have identified the students as Cathryn ``Carey'' Depuy and Ryan Adams, both 18 years old and from Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Police say the two had just left Hamilton Municipal Airport around 1 p.m. Sunday with Depuy at the controls of the single-engine Cessna 150. It went down in the town of Eaton, a few miles from the Colgate campus.

Federal aviation safety officials are investigating.

As WCBS-880's Marla Diamond reported, Ridgefield High School was in mourning for Depuy, a track star and the pilot of the Cessna.

According to Federal Aviation Administration records, Depuy held a student pilot license issued in October 2013.

Adams had been an exceptional student at St. Luke's in New Canaan, where Head of School Mark Davis said the Eagle Scout began a project to honor war veterans.

"He expanded that I guess, to the sacrifices that servicemen and women make. So, he was somebody who really lived his beliefs," Davis said.

Colgate officials have postponed or canceled some of Monday's campus events and are making counseling available.

A third Ridgefield High School graduate also died over the weekend. Ryan Meegan, 2014, was killed in a car accident.

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