Menomonie mourns the loss of four residents who died in a single-engine plane crash in Illinois while returning to Wisconsin from Nashville on Saturday morning. Learn more about the four friends and how the local airport community is coping.

The single-engine plane crashed at around 10:15 a.m. on April 19 in a field in Trilla, an unincorporated community in Illinois, state police said.

Four people from Wisconsin were killed on Saturday when their private, single-engine plane crashed in a field near an airport in rural Illinois, authorities said.