Ten people who died in an Alaskan plane crash have been identified by authorities

Ten people died Thursday when a Bering Air caravan crashed in Alaska. The bodies of all ten people have been found in the wreckage, according to the Alaska State Troopers.

Police say that Cessna 208B Flight 445 of Bering Air went missing during a flight Thursday afternoon and crashed into sea ice about 34 miles southeast of Nome, Alaska.

Police say there were nine people on board the commuter plane, along with the pilot.

In an update on Saturday, the government said that all 10 bodies had been found and taken to Nome, where they were named.

Chad Antill, 34, of Nome was named as the driver. The nine passengers were named as Liane Ryan, 52, of Wasilla; Donnell Erickson, 58, of Nome; Andrew Gonzalez, 30; Kameron Hartvigson, 41; Rhone Baumgartner, 46; Jadee Moncur, 52; Ian Hofmann, 45; Talaluk Katchatag, 34; and Carol Mooers, 48. This information was gathered from different sources.

ABC News earlier reported that Baumgartner and Hartvigson were employees of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, a non-profit that helps Alaska Native people get health care.

Leaders with the partnership say they went to Unalakleet to service a heat recovery system that is important to the community water plant. They worked for the group in the environmental health and engineering departments.

David Beveridge, the group’s vice president of environmental health and engineering, said in a statement that both men “were driven by a deep commitment to our mission.”

“They knew how to help people all over Alaska and were willing to do so no matter what.” “These two team members gave their lives to help others,” he said.

The plane’s pieces were found on Friday.

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jennifer Homendy, said on Saturday that it is still too early to say what caused the crash because the board is still looking into it.

During a news briefing, Homendy said that the wreckage was found on an ice floe moving five miles per day, which made both the recovery and the investigation very hard.

ABC News was told by Coast Guard Lt. Commander Mike Salerno that the Alaska State Troopers were in charge of finding the bodies. The Alaska National Guard said on Saturday that it would help with the effort by sending two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters, a UH-60L Black Hawk based in Nome, an HC-130J Combat King II, and a team of pararescuemen.

A search and rescue team on a USCG MH-60 Jayhawk chopper found the wreckage. Two rescue swimmers were then lowered to the water to look at the plane.