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The Sheriff’s Coroner’s Unit has positively identified the two victims who were killed in a plane crash on August 6, 2015.  The pilot is 58-year-old David Martz of San Diego and the passenger is 56-year-old Greg Bacino, also from San Diego.   Next of kin notifications have been made.

Mr. Martz, a commercial pilot, was hired by Mr. Bacino to fly him to a business meeting in San Luis Obispo.  The two were flying home from the San Luis Obispo Airport at approximately 9:00 p.m. in a rented Cessna from the San Diego area when it appears they had engine trouble and crashed in a remote area of the Los Padres National Forest near Don Victor Trail. 

The crash is under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.