As to some of your concerns as to if the plane was overloaded, I can assure you it was not. I personally knew Ron and his family. Their boys were wrestlers, his oldest and biggest son just wrestled at the kansas state wrestling meet in March. He wrestled at 106 pounds. Ron and Becky were not large people either, I'd be surprised if Ron even weighed 170.
This was a terrific, generous, kind and extremely tight knit bonded family. They would bend over backwards to help the kids in the community. It's hard to say how many kids they've helped send to wrestling camps and the like. Never asked for any attention or recognition. Just extremely kind people and this is absolutely a terrible loss for Junction City, Kansas State University, and Kansas in general. They will be missed.