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Victims in ill-fated flight from Jacksonville to Texas identified

A 65-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were identified as the victims by the National Transportation Safety Board.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The video attached to this story is from a previous, related report.

The two people who died when a plane traveling from Jacksonville to Texas crashed have been identified by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The NTSB says the pilot and a passenger were both killed when a small plane crashed in Tom Green County, Texas, Thursday afternoon.

The victims have now been identified as 65-year-old Gregg C. Seaman and 48-year-old Courtney Koranda Seaman.

Both are from San Diego, California.

It is unknown at this time if the victims had other residences. 

Flight records show since August, the plane flew more than a dozen times. It is seen frequently taking off from San Diego's Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport, and landing in Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Wyoming and Florida for a few days before returning to San Diego. 

On October 21, the plane flew from San Diego and landed in Fort Lauderdale. Since then, it's taken numerous trips back and forth between Fort Lauderdale and Jacksonville. 

The plane's latest trip was taken from Fort Lauderdale to Jacksonville on Dec. 13, before it flew out of Craig Airport Friday.

What happened? 

Texas Department of Public Safety Sgt. Justin Baker announced Thursday just hours after the crash that there were no survivors, despite search and rescue efforts. 

The plane crashed at approximately 12:38 p.m. near Christoval, Texas and was found on a ranch.

A recording of the pilot's final transmission to air traffic control shows him saying, "We got a problem!" 

Less than four minutes later, the air traffic controller can be heard talking to another controller, asking for help locating the plane. "(I) just had an aircraft that possibly went down," he said.

The plane appears to have missed the runway at its destination in San Angelo, Texas. The cause of the crash is unknown at this time.

The NTSB is investigating and it could be months before a final report is released.

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