Alaska crews recover remains of all 10 plane crash victims
America hasn't finished mourning the tragic aviation accident that just claimed the lives of 67 people in Washington, DC, but it happened again.
A commuter plane has crashed off the coast of Alaska, killing all 10 people who were on board.
According to the Nome Volunteer Fire Department, "all ten individuals aboard the Bering Airplane have been officially brought home."
The pilot killed in the crash has been identified as Chad Antill, 34, of Nome, Alaska.
Rhone Baumgartner, 46, and Kameron Hartvigson, 41, boarded the flight to Nome to work on a heat recovery system servicing the community's water plant, the Associated Press reported.
Other people who perished in the crash were Liane Ryan, 52, of Wasilla; Donnell Erickson, 58, of Nome; Andrew Gonzalez, 30, of Wasilla; Jadee Moncur, 52, of Eagle River; Ian Hofmann, 45, of Anchorage; Talaluk Katchatag, 34, of Unalakleet, and Carol Mooers, 48, of Unalakleet.
Treacherous weather in the area had delayed recovery efforts, but the fire department announced that officials were able to use a break in the weather on February 8 "to bring Bering Air passengers and crew home."
Crews were still working on recovering the single-engine plane, which had disappeared on February 6.
America's Coast Guard spotted the wreckage of the plane on February 7 on sea ice about 30 miles southeast of Nome.
The Coast Guard immediately determined that the severity of the wreckage meant that there was no chance of survival for anyone on the flight.
Recovery efforts plan to include a Black Hawk helicopter removing the remains of the plane for the water.
The Coast Guard said that data from the flight showed a "rapid loss in elevation and rapid loss in speed" for the aircraft, but have not been able to find the cause of that decline.
"Please know that we'll work diligently to determine how this happened with the ultimate goal of improving safety in Alaska and across the United States," National Transportation Safety Board chair Jennifer Homendy said.