AST: 2 identified in plane crash near Bethel

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Authorities have identified two people who died in a single engine airplane crash last week northeast of Bethel.
In an online dispatch Monday, Alaska State Troopers identified the pilot as 62-year-old Mark Matter and 63-year-old Cecilia Matter, both of Aniak.
The Piper PA-11 reportedly left Aniak, a small village upriver from Bethel, Thursday at around 2 p.m