Body Found at Plane Wreckage Near California Mountain Peak

The view from the North Ridge Trail on Mount Diablo looks southwest, in Mount Diablo State Park, California, in this Dec. 18, 2018, file photo. Authorities say a body was found in the wreckage of a plane they believed crashed Friday night, Feb. 8, 2019. Tom Stienstra/San Francisco Chronicle via AP

CLAYTON, California—Authorities say a body has been found in the wreckage of a plane they believed crashed Friday night, Feb. 8, two miles southwest of the peak of Mount Diablo in Northern California.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the single-engine Mooney M20 crashed into the hillside in Contra Costa County. Gregor says the exact time of the crash hasn’t been determined yet.