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A woman serving in the Wisconsin Air National Guard was one of two victims killed in a small plane crash in the state last week, according to reports.
The second victim was an Air Force reservist.
Staff Sgt. Remington K. Viney, 26, was flying in a twin-engine Velocity V-Twin plane with Tanner Byholm, 25, when the plane crashed in a wooded, swampy area shortly after takeoff from the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport last Tuesday morning, the Rock County Medical Examiner s Office said, according to FOX 6 in Milwaukee.
No one else was on board the plane headed to Florida.
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Police have identified the two people who died in a plane crash in Rock County earlier this week.
Tanner Byholm, 25, of Glidden, and Remington Viney, 26, of Kimberly died in the crash, according to the Dane County Medical Examiner.
The small plane they were in crashed shortly after takeoff from the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville on Tuesday.
The Rock County Sheriff’s Department says the plane had reported a problem to the airport tower before the tower lost contact about 9:27 a.m. Tuesday.
Investigators believe the pilot was trying to return to the airport when the plane crashed about a mile south of the airport near the Rock River.
Wisconsin Air National Guard identifies staff sergeant who was one of two killed in civilian plane crash February 20 Air Force Staff Sgt. Remington K. Viney, 26, was one of two killed in a civilian aviation crash Feb. 16. (Air Force) Officials with the Wisconsin Air National Guard on Saturday identified an airman with the 115th Fighter Wing who was one of two people who died Feb. 16 in a civilian aviation crash. Staff Sgt. Remington K. Viney, 26, was killed in the aircraft crash in Janesville, Wisconsin, at 9:18 a.m. CST Feb. 16, according to the wing’s Facebook page.
Local TV station Action 2 News previously reported that Viney was one of two people killed Tuesday during a plane crash in Rock County. Authorities identified the other victim as 25-year-old Tanner Byholm of Glidden, Wisconsin. Byholm was an Air Force reservist, according to an obituary posted online.