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Officials recover sunken aircraft from Chickamauga Lake [photos]

Private contractors on Friday recover the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Chickamauga Lake on Monday, January 7, 2019. / Contributed photo by Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Public Relations Division
Private contractors on Friday recover the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Chickamauga Lake on Monday, January 7, 2019. / Contributed photo by Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Public Relations Division Private contractors on Friday recover the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Chickamauga Lake on Monday, January 7, 2019. / Contributed photo by Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Public Relations Division

Private contractors working with the aircraft owner’s insurance company recovered the main portion of a sunken aircraft on Friday after it crashed into Chickamauga Lake earlier this week.

Two victims were recovered Thursday afternoon after four days of searching. Their families identified them as retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Frank Davey and Lynda Marinello.

The crash was reported at around 1:48 p.m. near the Hobo Bluff area in north Soddy-Daisy on Monday.

About an hour later, officials found debris, including parts of the fuselage and tail, from a single-engine plane floating in the water and moving south.