Investigators in a preliminary report say a collision between two small planes last week at McCall’s Municipal Airport that killed three people happened while both planes were in flight about 30 feet off the ground.

The report filed on Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board did not place blame on either pilot, who were both in Cessna 172s. The report says the collision happened at the approach end of the runway and that “both airplanes were destroyed in the collision, uncontrolled descent, and postcrash fire.”

Killed were McCall public works Director Bill Keating, 52, and two of his grandsons, ages 1 and 6. A third grandson, age 3, was taken to a Salt Lake hospital for burn treatment.

Justin Mooney, 30, the pilot of the other plane, pulled the 3-year-old from the wreckage. Mooney and his passenger, Mark Fuller, 27, escaped with minor injuries.

(AP)