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Five members of a Georgia family were killed in a plane crash in northern New York state, state police said in a press release on Monday.

Roger Beggs, 76; Laura Van Epps, 43; Ryan Van Epps, 42; James R. Van Epps, 12; and Harrison Van Epps, 10, were all returning to Georgia from Cooperstown, New York, where the family had attended a baseball tournament, the release said.

At 2 p.m. Sunday, authorities were notified of a possible plane crash and dispatched to the Lake Cecil Road area in Masonville, a city in Delaware County, according to the New York State Police press release. Multiple agencies used drones, ATVs and helicopters to eventually locate the wreckage and the crashed plane – a single-engine Piper Malibu Mirage – as well as the dead passengers, police said.

The plane had taken off from Albert S. Nader Regional Airport in Oneonta, New York, and was en route to West Virginia for refueling. Its final destination was Cobb County International Airport outside Atlanta.

The cause of the crash is currently being investigated by federal authorities, the press release said.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp expressed his “deepest condolences to all who knew and loved the victims” in a statement Monday afternoon.

Correction: An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of the airport in Oneonta. It is Albert S. Nader Regional Airport.