The crash happened just south of Tenino Sunday night.

Ghyrn Loveness, 20, was flying a Cessna 170 when he crashed. KOMO 4 News has learned this is the second fatal plane crash Loveness has been involved in. He survived both.

Anthony Peterson, 14, watched the crash happen Sunday.

"It was coming down and doing fine. Then, the plane hit the power line and kind of did a flip, and landed on it's back," he said.

Peterson saw how Loveness, 20, tried to pilot the single engine Cessna 170 -- without its engine attached -- into his uncle's field. Loveness just missed his Peterson's uncle's house by a matter of feet.

Bloodied, but talkative, Loveness walked away from the crash.

"He told my uncle he put it on auto pilot," said Peterson, "he was looking at a map and he kind of just got hit (by the other plane)."

The other plane involved was a single engine Cessna 210. It landed in John Benedict's front yard.

Benedict saw the two planes collide in mid-air. They converged on each other much like a car merges onto a freeway.

The Cessna 210 disintegrated on contact, killing pilot Scott Christopher Devlin, 33, of Camas.

Monday a helicopter surveyed the area and found pieces of the planes at their two crash sites, more than 1/3 of a mile apart.

NTSB investigator, Tom Little, said evidence on the ground backs up witness accounts of a midair collision. But it is still unclear why they crashed.

"The weather wasn't a factor, there didn't appear to be any problems with the pilots that were certified" he said. "It's one of these see and avoid things when you are flying under visual flight rules conditions. It's incumbent upon the pilots to see and avoid the other pilots.

The NTSB says they have good radar data on both planes in Sunday's crash. It could be six months before a preliminary report is put together on the cause of this accident.

Ghyrn Loveness of Vashon Island was involved in another deadly plane crash on July 4, 2003.

He was at the controls of a 1980 Beechcraft when it lost power over the Columbia River. Loveness' father took over the controls moments before the plane crashed near Wenatchee. Loveness' father, Gary Loveness, was killed. Ghryn's brother, Colin, also survived the crash with minor injuries.