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FAA: Plane Crash UPDATE: 2nd Victim Identified

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(AP) — A relative says one of the people killed in Sunday’s small plane crash near the Tulsa suburb of Collinsville was a retired doctor who lived in Kansas.

Rod Marshall said that his twin brother, Ronald Marshall, was aboard the plane with another passenger when it crashed.

Rod Marshall says his brother was a retired gynecologist who lived in Manhattan, Kan. Federal records show the plane was registered to Ronald Marshall out of DeWitt, Neb., where he owned land.

A second passenger, Chris Gruber, was identified earlier by officials at Kansas State University.

The Federal Aviation Administration says the single-engine aircraft departed Tulsa around 5:50 p.m. Sunday en route to Manhattan, Kan. The plane crashed inside the city limits of Collinsville, about 30 minutes northeast of Tulsa.

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(AP) – One of at least two people who died in Sunday’s small plane crash near the suburban Tulsa city of Collinsville has been identified as an employee of Kansas State University.

School spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson says Chris Gruber, the development director for the college of veterinary medicine, was aboard the aircraft that crashed. Peterson says Gruber had worked for the school for more than eight years.

Earlier, the Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office said it had received two bodies from the crash.

The Federal Aviation Administration had reported Sunday that there were as many as three dead.

The FAA says the single-engine aircraft departed Tulsa around 5:50 p.m. Sunday en route to Manhattan, Kan. The plane crashed inside the city limits of Collinsville, about 30 minutes northeast of Tulsa.

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