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Two men died when their plane crashed in southeast Nebraska, officials said Thursday.
Nemaha County Sheriff Brent Lohman said the county received a call about 11 p.m. Wednesday regarding a plane that had left Lincoln for the Auburn airport and had not returned to Lincoln as expected.
Searchers found the Cessna 150 small aircraft about a mile south of the Auburn airport.
The two men on board — 41-year-old Dustan Biegler of Valparaiso, and 24-year-old Colton Hill of Kearney — were killed.
Auburn is about 65 miles (104.61 kilometers) south of Omaha.
The University of Nebraska at Kearney said in a release Thursday that Hill graduated from the school in May with a degree in aviation systems management with an emphasis in flight operations. He was also a pitcher on the 2018 Loper baseball team.
The National Transportation and Safety Board will investigate the crash.
