Authorities are investigating what led a commuter plane carrying 10 people to crash off the coast of Alaska. Two people killed on the turboprop aircraft have been identified.

Ten people died in the crash on Thursday, and authorities are still trying to piece together why the aircraft went down

Just hours after finding the remains of 10 people in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, authorities raced to recover their bodies and the wreckage of the small commuter plane from unstable sea ice before expected high winds and snow.

“The conditions out there are dynamic, so we’ve got to do it safely in the fastest way we can,” Jim West, chief of the Nome volunteer fire department, said on Friday.

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JUNEAU, Alaska -- A small commuter plane that crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome was located Friday on sea ice, and all 10 people on board died, authorities said. The crash appeared to be one of the deadliest in the state in the last 25 years. Read More

Rescuers searched Friday for any sign of a plane that went missing while carrying 10 people across Alaska's Norton Sound south of the Arctic Circle. Read More