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CONROE, TX (KTRK) -- Two people died in a plane crash in Conroe, moments after the pilot reported smoke in the cockpit.
According to an email from Lynn Lunsford with the Federal Aviation Administration, the crash happened just before 9am about a half-mile north of the Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe.
Elzie J. Warren, 70, and his 54-year-old daughter Phyllis G. Ridings were flying to Temple for an air show. The aircraft departed from the airport shortly before the accident occurred.
They reported smoke in the cockpit and declared an emergency, officials said.
The aircraft -- a homebuilt single-engine Ravin 500 -- crashed and exploded while attempting to return to the field.
Warren and Ridings were both killed. The plane, which was built in 2007, was incinerated.
Texas Department of Public Safety officials in Montgomery County said the plane went down in such a heavily wooded area that firefighters had to bring in a bulldozer to clear brush in order to get a truck in to put water on the flames.
Authorities with the FAA's Houston office and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash.