**Update Thursday morning**
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A coroner says a Delaware man is the fourth victim in the crash of a small plane in South Carolina.
Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nesbit says 67-year-old Dallas Carter, of Laurel, Del., was killed in the pre-dawn crash Wednesday.
Carter and three other men were going to Florida and the Bahamas for an amateur radio competition when the twin-engine Piper PA-23 crashed while taking off from the Summerville Airport about 30
miles northwest of Charleston.
Nesbit was conducting autopsies Thursday.
Representatives from the National Transportation Safety Board were expected on the scene Thursday to begin their investigation.
Wednesday morning
A small plane crashed at the Summerville Airport on Wednesday, killing four people.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said the twin-engine Piper PA-23 crashed shortly after departure around 6:45 a.m. Wednesday near the Summerville airport at Jedburg.
Bergen says there was four people on board and local authorities confirmed all on board were killed.
She said the flight plan indicated the aircraft was headed to Fort Pierce, Florida. A call to the Dorchester County coroner’s office was not immediately returned.
The Piper PA-23 was registered to Peter Radding of North Charleston who is a board member of Mercy Flight Southeast. The group provides free flights “for children and adults with medical or compelling humanitarian needs.“
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