SHELTON, Wash. -- The family of two men killed in a plane crash arrived at Lake Nahwatzel to pay their respects at the spot where their loved ones died.

"My dad and my brother were very loving people. They loved their family and we'll all miss them very much," said Jared Storer.

Mark Storer died when the float plane he piloted and owned crashed around 3 p.m. Thursday near Shelton.

His son Brian was the only passenger also killed in the crash. He’s a husband and father of two little boys.

"The hardest thing is going to be how we're gonna tell them that daddy's not going to be home,” Jared said.

Mark owned Burien and Airport towing.

Eyewitnesses said the plane took off from Lake Nahwatzel and moments later it crashed into the woods in a fiery explosion.

Firefighters were still putting out hotspots from a two acre brush fire ignited by the crash.

The fire and resulting condition of the wreckage will make it difficult to figure out what happened, investigators said.

'It did burn severely, so a lot of the structure is gone but we will look at what systems we can with what we have left," said Howard Plagens of the National Transportation Safety Board.

The pilot's family said he loved flying, but always put safety first.

"The engine failed shortly after takeoff and with the weight of the pontoons there's just nothing you can do when a seaplane goes down you have very little time to make it to a landing space," Jared said.