The bodies of all 10 people who died in a crash of a Bering Air caravan in Alaska on Thursday have been recovered from the wreckage, according to the Alaska State Troopers.
Bering Air Flight 445, a Cessna 208B, crashed into sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska, after going missing during a flight Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
There were nine passengers, all adults, and a pilot on board the commuter plane, authorities said.
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The bodies of all 10 people were recovered and taken to Nome where they were identified, authorities said in an update Saturday.
The pilot was identified as Chad Antill, 34, of Nome. The nine passengers were identified as Liane Ryan, 52, of Wasilla; Donnell Erickson, 58, of Nome; Andrew Gonzalez, 30, of Wasilla; Kameron Hartvigson, 41, of Anchorage; Rhone Baumgartner, 46 of Anchorage; Jadee Moncur, 52, of Eagle River; Ian Hofmann, 45, of Anchorage; Talaluk Katchatag, 34, of Unalakleet; and Carol Mooers, 48 of Unalakleet.
Earlier, ABC News confirmed two passengers — Baumgartner and Hartvigson — were employees of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, a nonprofit organization providing health services for Alaska Native people.
They worked in the organization’s environmental health and engineering department and had traveled to Unalakleet to service a heat recovery system that is critical to the community water plant, according to leaders with the consortium.
Both men “were motivated by a deep commitment to our mission,” said David Beveridge, the organization’s vice president of environmental health and engineering, in a statement.
“They had the skills to help people across Alaska and the devotion to do so under any conditions. These two members of our team lost their lives serving others,” he said.
The wreckage of the plane was found on Friday.
