THOMSON — Authorities have identified two pilots killed in the Tuesday crash of a business jet in east Georgia.
Raymond Bachman, 73, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, and Claude Duchesne, 63, of El Paso, Texas, died in the crash, the McDuffie Coroner’s Office said.
The plane went down Tuesday morning in a field in the Thomson area, The Augusta Chronicle reported.
The aircraft was a Dassault Falcon 20, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a brief statement.
Sheriff’s deputies were notified of a missing plane about 6:30 a.m., McDuffie County Sheriff’s Maj. Ronnie Williamson said. They searched the area and found the wreckage in the field, he said.
The plane appeared to have been heading to Thomson-McDuffie County Airport, Williamson said.
The plane was flying from Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Texas, to Thomson-McDuffie County Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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