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The Summit County Medical Examiner's Office has officially identified all nine victims killed in last week's jet plane crash in Ellet.

The final identification came Friday, of pilot 40 year-old Oscar Chavez and co-pilot 50 year-old Renato Marchese, both of Florida.

The seven passengers, all employees of a Florida real estate firm, were identified earlier.

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(Summit County Medical Examiner's office, news releases) The Summit County Medical Examiner has positively identified the two remaining victim's from the plane crash that occurred on Tuesday, November 10, 2015, on Mogadore Road in Akron, Ohio
Pilot - Oscar Chavez, 40, from North Bay Village, Florida.

Co-Pilot – Renato Marchese, 50, from Boynton Beach, Florida.

(earlier names released)

· Gary Shapiro, 35, from Boca Raton, FL

· Diana Suriel, 32, from Wellington, FL

· Thomas Virgin, 31, from Boca Raton, FL

· Jared Weiner, 35, from Boca Raton, FL

· Ori Rom, 32, from Delray Beach, FL

· Nick Weaver, 34, from Boca Raton, FL

· Diane Smoot, 50, from Delray Beach, FL

The National Transportation Safety Board has provided another update into that jet crash into an Ellet apartment building that killed 9 people aboard.

NTSB vice-chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr says that significant parts of the Hawker jet have been taken away for examination.

"Both engines have been removed for further inspection off-site," she told reporters at an Akron news conference on Thursday. "and we're still searching for the digital engine computers to retrieve the engine data parameters."

Those engines are headed for Honeywell for further examination.

The cockpit voice recorder was damaged outside, though the tape inside was not damaged.

Still, the NTSB says that there were 30 minutes of "poor quality" audio from the flight crew.

"On the recording, the crew discussed the localizer approach procedures to runway 2-5 at Akron Fulton International," Dinh-Zarr said. "The crew also discussed weather conditions as being wind from 240 degrees at 8 knots, 1 1/2 miles visibility and 600 feet overcast."

Though fire consumed the main body of the plane, Dinh-Zarr says the plane was intact before impact, and they're examining the four corners of the plane...and looking for airplane parts in the wreckage.

The NTSB will have no more on-site briefings here, and will be in Akron the next couple of days.