MADRAS, OR -- After nearly a week of searching for next of kin, authorities have finally released the identities of two people killed in a plane crash southeast of Madras. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirms David and Venita Hagerty were the only two on board when their small plane went down March 10th. 

Bud Pugh is an associate pastor at the Hagertys’ Idaho church and says David flew Venita to Aurora to attend a family member's funeral in Lake Oswego. The crash occurred on their flight home.

Pugh tells KBND News David worked as an IT specialist for NOAA in Colorado, "And [he] was able to work from here but would travel back and forth on occasion, back to Boulder." Pugh says Hagerty volunteered to fly members of his church to a men's retreat, "He's very experienced and very careful, for all intents and purposes. We suspect he probably ran into the weather, or might've been heading into Redmond or somewhere to get out of it." Pugh called the couple faithful, good people. 

The NTSB continues to investigate the cause of the crash.