The 10 people killed in the crash of a Bering Air flight in Western Alaska last week included a group of engineers from the Anchorage area working on a water plant, a teaching mentor from the Mat-Su and four Nome and Unalakleet residents, including the pilot and a school counselor.

Authorities are working to recover the wreckage of a plane crash in western Alaska that killed 10 people while investigators are trying to determine what caused the small commuter aircraft to go down in the icy Bering Sea.