Update: Identities of victims released in fatal plane crash in Morehouse Parish

**Update 11:00pm**

Morehouse Parish Sheriff Mike Tubbs says the victims have been identified as 54-year-old Gary Wood Cumbey of Paragould, Arkansas and 22-year-old Angel Eloy Torres of Yuma, Arizona.

"Yesterday, around 4:30, we got a call about a plane down by the prison," Tubbs says. "Deputies arrived within minutes... Unfortunately when we arrived, both the pilot and passenger were deceased."

Tubbs and officials with the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) say eyewitness accounts are helping their investigation into what happened.

"They were making a south to north pass of the edge of the field back there," says George Waddell with the FAA. "It appears they caught the power line."

They say the plane, a 1968 American Champion Citabria, hit the power lines near the Morehouse Detention Center around 4:40 p.m. It then nosedived into a nearby field.

"The type of aircraft they were using for the training is a low mass, it's on the lighter side," says Waddell. "It didn't have enough inertia to break through the power line. So it just kind of caught them and pulled them down."

The FAA and NTSB say the definite cause of the crash won't be determined until the investigation is over. It could be a year before anyone knows what really happened to Cumbey and Torres.

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**Update 3:45pm**

Morehouse Parish Sheriff Mike Tubbs says the victims have been identified as 54-year-old Gary Wood Cumbey of Paragould, Arkansas and 22-year-old Angel Eloy Torres of Yuma, Arizona.

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**Previous Version**

Federal investigators working to determine what caused a fatal plane crash in Morehouse Parish.

Authorities say the plane hit a power line on John Crimes Road Sunday afternoon and then crashed into a field nearby. The crash claimed the lives of two people, who have not yet been identified.

It knocked out the power at Morehouse Parish Detention Center, which has since been restored.

A team of federal investigators is investigating the scene.