Plane crash victims named

Both worked at Los Alamos Lab

Updated: Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009, 5:17 PM MDT
Published : Wednesday, 11 Mar 2009, 5:17 PM MDT

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Medical investigators late Wednesday confirmed the identities of two Edgewood men killed when their small plane crashed Monday during their morning commute to Los Alamos.

Randy Rupert and Mathew Porter, both 42, died in the crash in the San Pedro Mountains near Golden, the state Office of the Medical Investigator reported.

The single-engine aircraft was registered to Rupert who was piloting it.

The pair had taken off from Edgewood headed for Los Alamos where both men had worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 1997.

There was heavy snow and fog at the time. However the investigation into the cause of the crash is not yet complete.

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Plane crash victims named

Both worked at Los Alamos Lab

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