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Coroner lDs Fourth Santa Monica Plane Crash Victim

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have identified the remains of the fourth person pulled from the charred wreckage of a private jet that crashed into a hangar after landing at Santa Monica Airport last weekend.

Los Angeles County coroner's investigator Dana Bee said Sunday that 28-year-old Lucas Benjamin of Malibu was killed when the twin-engine Cessna crashed Sept. 29 as it arrived from Hailey, Idaho.

Also killed in the fiery crash were Lucas Benjamin's 63-year-old father, Mark Benjamin, along with 28-year-old Laura Winkler and 53-year-old Kyla Dupont.

The elder Benjamin, president of Santa Monica-based Morley Builders, is believed to have been at the controls.

The cause of the crash was being probed by the National Transportation Safety Board, but federal safety investigators curtailed their work due to the partial government shutdown.

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