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2 Dead In New Mexico Plane Crash Headed To Durango

VAUGHN, N.M. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says two people have died in a plane crash near Vaughn, New Mexico.

KOB-TV reports the Piper PA-28 aircraft took off from Georgetown, Texas, on Dec. 29. It was headed to Durango, Colorado, but disappeared from air traffic control radar that day.

Civil Air Patrol pilots helped ground crews with New Mexico Search and Rescue locate the wreckage between Vaughn and Corona, New Mexico, on Dec. 31.

Officials have not released the identities of the victims.

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