1. Three men and one woman aboard a small plane have died after it crashed Friday morning on I-285 at Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. The three men were identified as Greg Byrd and his sons, Christopher and Phillip. The woman was identified as Jackie Kulzer. [Read more]

2. Kulzer and Christopher Byrd were going to get married on Oct. 17, according to The Knot. [Read more]

3. The four were headed to Oxford, Miss., for a graduation ceremony Saturday at the University of Mississippi, according to the owner of a plane that took off from the airport just before the flight. [Read more]

4. Witnesses describe the scene: "I looked into my rear view mirror and saw this mass of flames. Everybody says this, but it really does feel very surreal … to the point of … did I really see that?" [Read more]

5. Although there were "a lot of close calls," DeKalb firefighter Capt. Eric Jackson said: "It's literally a miracle that no other cars were hit or severely impacted." [Read more]

6. Traffic in both directions was shut down for several hours, as nothing could be moved to preserve the scene for investigators. [Read more]

7. The westbound lanes of 285 reopened first; and the eastbound lanes were reopened just after 3 p.m. [Read more]

8. The wreckage will be moved to a site in Griffin and reconstructed, which might take two weeks, with a public report coming in six months to a year, according to an NTSB investigator. But it shouldn't be difficult to figure out what happened, he said. [Read more]

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