Authorities have identified the pilot in training in Friday's plane crash as Sam Pudney from Casper, Wyo.
2 pilots dead in crash of small plane near Q.C.
Pinal County sheriff's spokesman Mike Minter said he doesn't know Pudney's age.
Pudney was flying with pilot-in-command James Clapper, 57, of Scottsdale in an Extra 300L model aircraft when the plane crashed into the desert about eight miles east of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. It's still unknown what caused the plane to go down.
