By PJ Rivera (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Jul 08, 2013 01:44 PM EDT

An air taxi crashed at a small airport in Alaska on Sunday, killing the pilot and nine other passengers after the plane was engulfed in flames shortly after the crash.

The Associated Press reported that the de Havilland DHC3 Otter air taxi crashed at around 11 a.m. at the airport in Soldotna, a community located 75 miles southwest of Anchorage.

Investigations are still ongoing, but National Transportation Safety Board officer Clint Johnson said that initial reports indicated that the plane was taking off when the incident happened. However, he added that the witnesses did not see any actual takeoff attempt.

"The next thing they knew is they saw it on fire, unfortunately, after the accident. The investigation is still in early stages and nothing is confirmed about what went wrong," Johnson told the Anchorage Daily News.

Captain Lesley Quelland of Central Emergency Services was one of the first fire crews to respond to the crash site, but the air taxi was already engulfed in flames when they arrived. The fire crews needed about 10 minutes to put out the fire and concluded afterwards that no one made it out of the plane before it crashed.

"We saw the plume immediately when we left the station. It was a big, black cloud of smoke visible from the station, about three driving miles from the airport. When fire crews got to the airport about 11:30, the aircraft was crashed off the side of the runway and it was fully involved in flames," Quelland said.

The remains of all 10 passengers were recovered and are currently undergoing autopsy at the State Medical Examiner's Office in Anchorage, the Soldotna Police Department said on Sunday. Names of the victims have yet to be revealed, pending identification in Anchorage and confirmation from relatives.

Although the names of the victims have not yet been released, the Anchorage Daily News confirmed that the pilot was Walter Rediske, who owns Rediske Air, the operator of the air taxi that crashed on Sunday.

The Soldotna crash came one day after two people were killed in the fatal Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash at the San Francisco International Airport.

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