The weather certainly was not VMC yesterday afternoon - though could have been if they flew in to CGF yesterday morning, (IIRC, the clouds came over around 10am local). I had assumed (dangerous, I know), that they were flying IFR.
From the local newspaper website:
The two men who died in the plane crash Tuesday in Mayfield Village have been identified as attorneys from the Buffalo, N.Y. area.
Michael H. Doran was a partner at Doran and Murphy LLP and Matthew J. Schnirel was a young associate attorney, according to Colleen Murphy, Doran’s law partner.
Doran and Schnirel had been in Ohio to represent railroad workers during a case, said Michael Torcello, who also worked at Doran & Murphy.
Doran was the likely pilot of the Cirrus SR-22 that crashed near the Hickory Drive neighborhood in Mayfield Village. He was an experienced pilot who had been flying since 1996.
The National Transportation Safety Board and Ohio Highway Patrol have not confirmed that Doran and Schnirel are the decedents yet.
A Ohio State Police captain said on the news last night that they were "trying to locate the tail to get the number of the aircraft so that we can determine where it was coming from and going to". There wasn't much left of the aircraft from the few pictures that are on the Fox News site.