El Paso pilot among 2 killed in Georgia plane crash

THOMSON, Georgia – An El Paso man was one of two people killed in a small pane crash in eastern Georgia on Tuesday, ABC affiliate WJBF reported.

The plane went missing around 6:30 a.m. and the McDuffie County Sheriff’s Office later found the wreckage of the aircraft in a privately owned field.

Thomson City Administrator John Waller said it was a Dassault Falcon business jet that crashed.

The coroner indicated both pilots were killed and identified them as 63-year-old Claude Duschesne of El Paso, Texas, and 73-year-old Raymond Bachman of Fountain Hills, Arizona.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was flying from Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport in Lubbock, Texas, to the Thomson-McDuffie County Airport in Georgia at the time of the crash.

Both the FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board were investigating the crash.