Victims in Ruidoso plane crash identified

all night, we've been making calls and gathering new details about today's plane crash in ruidoso that kild 5 of the 7 people on board. joe bartels is live near the crash site in ruidoso with the latest for us -- it's tonight's top story. bill morris/ruidoso deputy village manager we're also learning more tonight about the lives of the crash victims. our nbc partners in dallas report pilot rodney duree -- seen here with his wife and son -- was a well known home builder in the area and former member of the aviation board of granbury texas. friends today spoke about the tragedy. .... they're going to be sorely missed we've also learned more about some of the passengers on the plane. karl richey and his wife keri were both teachers. their two sons were the two boys who were pulled from the wreckage and flown to the hospital. nearly three years ago-- that same airport was the scene of another fatal plane crash. a med-evac plane carrying five people went down in the devil's canyon area -- killing everyone on board. the plane was taking 15-month old lilly smith and her mother tracy smith to u-n-m hospital.

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[mcawesome021]

When I saw the picture of Lake, Mr. Rodney, and Miss Delane, I cried. I knew both of the families, and I grew up with chris and Lake.

R.I.P

[yousefajami]

well thats sad and thats on my birthday

[mrtopplayahater]

Holy smokes, how plane crashes were there in the last 5 years? This is like the 4th plane crash video I came across within a time span of within the last 3 years. Aviation is really going to shit.

[TripingAIR]

thats sad