BATH TOWNSHIP, MI – Pheasant releases to boost the hunting season are suspended amid the cleanup and investigation of a fatal plane crash that killed three people last week, state officials announced.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced Monday that it paused the program at Rose Lake State Game Area in Clinton and Shiawassee counties. The crash happened near the game area on Thursday evening in Bath Township, east of Lansing.

All three people aboard the mid-size twinjet aircraft died. They were later identified as pilots Rodolfo Pimentel Zamora, 50, and Francisco del moral Jimenez, 55, and mechanic Alvaro Espejo Javier Rodriguez, 69, all of Mexico.

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An ongoing investigation into the cras

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