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Officials have released the names of the two men who were killed in a plane crash in Keene Friday night.
Lawrence Marchiony, age 41, of Baldwinville, Massachusetts, and Marvin David Dezendorf, age 60, of Townshend, Vermont, died in the crash, according to a news release Monday from Keene police.
Both men were pilot-rated, said Tim Monville, senior air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, at a news conference Sunday.
Dezendorf’s LinkedIn page lists him as a flight instructor at Monadnock Aviation. A 2017 Monadnock Aviation newsletter said Marchiony trained with Dezendorf and had aspirations of becoming a flight instructor.
People at the Monadnock Aviation office Monday at Dillant-Hopkins Airport declined to comment.
A single-engine, four-seater Beechcraft Sierra owned by Monadnock Aviation crashed into a two-story garage attached to a four-family apartment building at 661 Main St. shortly before 7 p.m.
The plane departed Keene’s Dillant-Hopkins Airport heading north directly on the extended centerline of the airport’s primary runway before crashing, according to Airport Director David Hickling.
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