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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Authorities on Saturday identified three victims<\/a> of a deadly plane crash in Alaska as San Jose residents.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Alaska State Troopers on Wednesday afternoon were notified that a small plane had crashed in the Seldovia Slough, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n “A preliminary investigation determined that a Piper PA-24 bound for Seldovia from Merrill Field Airport in Anchorage had crashed into the water and was completely submerged,” Alaska authorities said. “At approximately 6:30 pm after the tide level dropped Troopers were able to extract four deceased adults from inside of the small plane.”<\/p>\n On Saturday, authorities identified three of the victims as 65-year-old Ronald Schmidt, 20-year-old Lance Schmidt and 82-year-old Daniel Simon, all of San Jose.<\/p>\n The fourth victim, the pilot, was identified as 68-year-old Eric Middlebrook of Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The cause of the crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this article came from the Alaska Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n News<\/a>San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SAN JOSE, Calif. – Authorities on Saturday identified three victims of a deadly plane crash in Alaska…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-447649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}