CUMMING, GA (CBS ATLANTA) -
Memorials were held Monday for the two men who died in a Forsyth County plane crash.
David Schorr, 40, and Don Hershall Hall, 45, both of Cumming died Thursday when their plane went down for an unknown reason.
A funeral for Hall was held at 11 a.m. at Brown's Bridge Community Church.
A memorial service for Schorr will be held at 2 p.m. at McDonald & Son Funeral Home.
Federal investigators are trying to determine what caused the plane to crash.
Schorr, the son of Steve Shore, VP of Cox Communications, was a passenger in the plane flown by Hall.
The single-engine, two-seater plane left from Stoney Point Airfield in south Forsyth County off of Stoney Point Road.
"The airplane did have an electronic instrumentation package in the dash and we believe there may be some non-volatile memory, in other words, recorded memory of the flight so we'll be sending that to our lab in Washington," said Ralph Hicks, a senior investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board.
"They should be able to tell us by the first of next week whether we had recorded data on the airplane," Hicks added.
A friend of Hall's said Hall built the single-engine plane from a kit and was an experienced pilot who had flown for years.
The NTSB said it did not know how long the plane was in the air or why it nose-dived and crashed around 7:45 p.m. Thursday.
It crashed in Cumming on Lanier Drive at Shady Grove Road. The plane landed in a busy residential section, narrowly missing homes and Deer Creek Shores Presbyterian Church.
"We were having meetings and there were a handful of people, thankfully we are all OK," said Rev. John Martin of Deer Creek Shores Church.
Sara Vogel said she was just about to start cooking dinner for her children when she heard the plane crash.
"It sounded like a lawn mower in the air, and it sounded like a lawn mower running out of gas," Vogel said. "You could hear the engine, it was a sputtering sound and then the engine sounded like it was trying to turn over again and then there was a thud."
Neighbors praised the pilot's skills in landing the plane in a spot away from people.
"He picked a good spot if he was going to take it down, he picked a good spot to put it," Lamar Bailey said. "There was nothing over there, he laid it right in the road. Too bad both had to die."
Schorr owned a technology-based company in Alpharetta, was president of his homeowner's association and was often praised for his community service, like when he helped tornado victims in Chattanooga.
Schorr leaves behind a wife, two daughters and a son.
The NTSB said it could take at least six months to determine the cause of the crash.
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Plane before the crash Source: Aviation Safety Network
