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Two pilots on training flight killed in small-plane crash near Bethel



Scene of the Hageland Aviation crash near Three Step Mountain in Southwest Alaska 

Two pilots were killed when a small commercial plane crashed southeast of Bethel late Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Officials said Hageland Aviation pilots Derrick Cedars, 42, and Greggory McGee, 46, were on a training flight when the Cessna 208 Caravan they were flying crashed in the Three Steps Mountain area about 30 miles southeast of Bethel. The crash occurred about 3:56 p.m., officials said, and a local pilot spotted the burning wreckage about two and a half hours later.

No passengers were on the plane.