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Victims In Deadly Plane Crash Identified

GREELEY, Colo. (CBS4) - The two people who died in a plane crash north of Greeley Tuesday morning have been identified.

The plane crashed at 11:37 a.m. Tuesday in a field near County Road 80 and County Road 43 near the town of Ault.

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The two individuals on board the plane were pronounced dead at the scene. They have been identified as Jared Langston and Benjamin Bates, both of Kansas.

Langston was a flight instructor and Bates was a bishop with the Mormon Church.

The cause of the crash is not immediately known and the Weld County Sheriff's Office along with the Federal Aviation Administration are conducting a full investigation.

The Weld County Sheriff's Office said they were flying a single-engine Bonanza.

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