Oregon Public Broadcasting

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its initial report for the small plane that crashed into a house on the Oregon coast.

Five people, the two pilots and three children in the home, were killed a week ago in Gearhart, north of Seaside.

Earlier reports had indicated the flight took off in poor visibility, and the NTSB  report confirms that.

The feds determined that “instrument meteorological conditions prevailed” - or as some call it, the plane was “flying blind.”

Randall Henderson is a local pilot and the chairman of the Advisory Committee for Seaside Airport, where the plane took off.

He says he doesn't like the term "flying blind".

Randall Henderson: “That's a layman's term, because obviously we're not blind, we're looking at instruments. Whenever you are flying in an airliner, they don't announce on the intercom that they are flying blind. Its just a standard operating procedure - you're flying by reference to instruments.”

Henderson says it's been hard for him because he was friends with the pilot, now identified as Jason Ketcheson, of Cannon Beach.

Investigators confirmed Ketcheson did have the proper credentials for the flight, but no flight plan had been filed.

The NTSB says this is an initial report, and a final report with the cause of the accident may not be completed for a year.