The Portland mom and her two children who suffered serious burns in the fire that followed a plane crash into their vacation home in Gearhart earlier this week will survive, her husband said in a statement to the media.

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Matt Reimann's statement said his wife, Ruth, and daughter, Sarah, remain in critical condition and son, Christopher, is in serious condition at the Oregon Burn Center at Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health Center in Portland.

"However, they are stable and their injuries are not life-threatening," he said. "Although they face a long healing process, they will recover and look forward to leading long, active lives."

The plane crashed in the fog Monday just after taking off. It touched off an explosion that rattled houses for a half mile. The pilot and his passenger were killed, along with the Reimann's youngest daughter, Julia and her two young cousins, Sam and Grace Masoudi

Ruth Reimann is the daughter of former Oregon Attorney General Lee Johnson. His other daughter was also at the family reunion in Gearhart, but she was on a walk with her husband. Both daughters survived, but the crash killed three grandchildren of Johnson,, the Oregon Attorney General from 1968 to 1977. He was also a state legislator, a trial and appeals judge, and a top aide to Republican Gov. Vic Atiyeh.

The dead in the house were Julia Reimann, 10, of Beaverton and her cousins, Hesam Farrar Masoudi, 12, and Grace Masoudi, 8, of Denver.

The pilot was Jason Ketcheson, 36, a Clatsop County resident, and the passenger was Frank Toohey, 58, of Warrenton.

"It's surreal, it still hasn't hit us yet," Toohey's son Adam said. "Our (dad) chose to go up in that plane, for the family on the ground there's no way to describe it, it's just tragedy, our hearts go out to them."

On Tuesday, Ruth Johnson-Reimann, 47, Christopher Reimann, 13 and Sarah Reimann, 11, of Beaverton were at Legacy Emanuel Hospital's burn center in Portland. At the request of the family, the hospital did not release condition reports.

The group was starting what was to be a two-week vacation and family reunion. Away from the home on a walk were parents Dr. Frederick Masoudi and Marie Johnson-Masoudi and another daughter, Elizabeth, 14.

Dr. Frederick Masoudi is a cardiologist at Denver Health Medical Clinic, his wife is a nurse-midwife at Kaiser Permanente.

"All of us here in Denver Health are keeping Dr. Masoudi and his family in our thoughts and prayers and providing them time to heal as a family," spokeswoman Dee Martinez said

"People are talking about how devastating it was, how sad, that it never should have happened," said Jennifer Rodgers, owner of Jennifer's Barber Shop in Gearhart.

"It's a bit quiet today. People are trying to figure out how it happened, why it happened," she said.

She said she knew Toohey, and that his wife came to tell her the news Monday afternoon.

"He thought the world of his children," she said. "He had two sons."

The two sons had flown in from Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where both worked selling timeshares, as their father did.

"We had total faith in (the pilot.) We wouldn't want dad up with anybody else," Adam Toohey said.

Roy Bennett of Seaside, who served with Ketcheson on the advisory board for Seaside's municipal airport, said the plane's owner, Allen Sprague, was "very meticulous" and sometimes used the plane for excursion flights in connection with the flight service he owns.

He said Sprague would voluntarily ground the plane himself if he found anything out of order.

kgw.com viewer Leanne Rutz

Courtesy kgw.com viewer Leanne Rutz, Gearhart

He described Ketcheson as "likable, a gung-ho type guy ready to take charge."

He said Ketcheson was an experienced pilot and a licensed instructor, recently divorced with two or three children, who also sold timeshares and was developing commercial space in nearby Seaside. "He had some other ventures," he said.

Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board were on the scene on the scene, but it can take months for their conclusions to be released.

"Most of the plane has been destroyed by fire," NTSB investigator Van McKenny said, as they combed through the charred rubble. "The pieces we find are usually the steel components."

"To lose three children and two adults ... I can't remember the last time something this bad happened in the county," Gearhart Fire Chief Bill Eddy said.