More Texans Identified in Florida Plane Crash

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Authorities on Friday identified two more Dallas men who were on board a Carrollton company’s plane that crashed in a thunderstorm this week off the Gulf Coast of Florida.


Jeff Byron, 40, and Greg Arceneaux, 54, were on the plane with two other men from Dallas, pilot Steve Barrows and Roland Schurrer, president of Quality Powder Coating, authorities said.


Byron also worked for Quality, and Arceneaux was described as Byron’s friend. Officials from the metal coating company say the group was headed to Tampa for a meeting when their plane crashed Wednesday afternoon.


The fifth passenger was Mysela “Mike” Parks, a media production manager for the McNichols Co., said a spokeswoman for the Tampa, Fla., steel services company.


Bill Pellan with the Pinellas-Pasco County medical examiner’s office said that investigators have received fragmented remains recovered from debris in the Gulf of Mexico and are now waiting for family members to submit DNA samples. He said the process of positively identifying the remains could take weeks.


The accident occurred after the pilot told air traffic controllers that he had lost control in heavy turbulence. Coast Guard officials said the wreckage suggested that the crash was “catastrophic” and on Thursday afternoon called off the search 20 miles west of Port Richey, Fla.


Schurrer, 40, and Barrows, 33, shared a home in the Knox-Henderson area of Dallas, where neighbors described them as nice men who doted on their two chocolate Labs. Authorities say the dogs were also believed to be on the plane.