WEST PARIS – A third member of a West Paris fishing party has died as a result of injuries from a plane crash last weekend near Greenville.

William Aridas died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, a public affairs officer said Wednesday night.

Aridas, in his 60s, suffered severe burns over most of his body in the crash Sunday.

His father-in-law, Vernon Inman, 77, of West Paris, died at the scene, and West Paris Selectman Harlan Abbott, 67, died at midnight Sunday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston from severe burns.

The three men were among a party of six West Paris residents who were flown into Horseshoe Pond for a weekend fishing trip. The others were Inman’s son, Walter; Randall Jones, 40; and his son Matthew Jones, 9. They were flown out Sunday morning.

Pilot Richard Dill, 32, of Greenville was flying the other three out when the engine stalled and the plane went down at the base of Elephant Mountain and burst into flames, he told state police. Dill suffered burns trying to pull the men out of the burning wreckage. He was treated at a Greenville hospital and released.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

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