The Essendon Airport crash was captured on dashcam footage.

Glenn Garland had been on a tour of New Zealand and Australia with his partner and friends, visiting luxury sites and playing golf.

On Monday, he wrote about playing golf at Kingston Heath and Royal Melbourne courses saying it was “really tough and windy conditions”.

“We had rain squalls, and wind that was almost biblical in the fierceness. The only thing we missed was a plague of locusts. My hat is off to the Aussies that play in this everyday,” he said.

“Melbourne is one magnificent and amazing city.”

Pictures show the group at various sites around New Zealand and Australia where he spoke of playing golf with Russell Munsch. He’s also pictured with Greg DeHaven and John L Washburn in an album posted on Facebook to share their adventures.

Family members have posted tributes to Russell Munsch and Greg DeHaven on Facebook and Victorian police have confirmed the four tourists on board the light plane were from the US.

A picture from Glenn Garland’s Facebook page shows him travelling with friends. Picture: Glenn Garland Facebook.Source:Supplied

It comes as colleages pay tribute to Max Quartermain, 63, who died along with four other passenger in the fiery crash.

Australian Corporate Jets chief executive Bas Nikolovski says Mr Quartermain was “one of the most experienced pilots’”.

“Every aspect of my body had goosebumps,” Mr Nikolovski told AAP. “It has smashed me for six, and I am a softie at the best of times.”

Steve Atto, who had flown with Mr Quartermain, said on Facebook that he was a “diligent pilot” and “we all trusted and enjoyed his company”.

Mr Quartermain owned Corporate and Leisure Aviation with his wife Cilla, operating the business from their Rye home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

The comments come despite Mr Quartermain reportedly being involved in incident in 2015 where he came within one nautical mile of another plane in bad weather at Mt Hotham

A view from the tarmac at Melbourne's Essendon Airport is seen after a charter plane leaving the airport crashed. Picture: Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images.Source:Getty Images

Footage from the scene that luckily did not kill anyone on the ground. Picture: TwitterSource:Twitter

Passengers include four US tourists including Greg Reynolds De Haven, Russell Munsch and reportedly Glenn Garland. The identity of fourth American is not yet known.

Neighbours reportedly heard Ms Quartermain saying “he’s gone, he’s gone” on Tuesday morning. An ambulance is also understood to have been called to the house to treat a person with breathing problems.

The company’s website says they have “over 38 years of charter services experience and an impeccable safety record”.

The plane carrying four passengers and the pilot crashed into DFO shopping centre shortly after taking off from Essendon Airport before 9am.

Pilot Max Quartermain reported “catastrophic engine failure” before the crash and there were no fatalities at the shopping centre.

Greg Reynolds De Haven. Piccture: (AAP Image/Facebook)Source:AAP

Glenn Garland.Source:Supplied

Russell Munsch.Source:Facebook

Pilot Max QuartermainSource:Supplied

Nearby workers and witnesses described it as being like an “atomic bomb”.

“We felt just everything shake and a massive explosion and a fireball go up,” said Ash Mayer, a storeman at The Good Guys.

“I could feel the heat through the window of the taxi, and then a wheel — it looked like a plane wheel — bounced on the road and hit the front of the taxi as we were driving along,” said a witness known only as Jason.