By Associated Press - Sunday, June 17, 2018

ROTAN, Texas (AP) - Two Central Texas men have been identified as victims of a small plane crash in West Texas.

The Texas Department of Public Safety says 33-year-old Dallas Lee McMahon, of Austin, and 38-year-old Jay Robert Liesbon, of Burnet, were killed when their single-engine aircraft plummeted into a canyon on a ranch outside Rotan on Friday.

Fisher County Sheriff Alan Arnwine says the plane hit a power line. It took authorities on an all-terrain vehicle nearly two hours to reach the site in a rugged area.



Rotan is about 100 miles (160.93 kilometers) southeast of Lubbock.

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