MAITLAND, Fla. — On Thursday the Medical Examiner released the identities of the two men killed when a small plane plunged into Lake Maitland.

Stanley Rampey and Raymond Dodd, both from South Carolina, died Wednesday after a Cessna 182 crashed just after 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The aircraft was headed from Orlando Executive Airport to Massey Ranch Airpark in Volusia County.

On Wednesday, divers searched the murky water for several hours before finding the plane and recovered the bodies.

"It was located in the northwest corner of Lake Maitland...the plane was located in 15-plus feet of water," Maitland Police Lt. Louis Grindle said. "Once they made contact with the plane, they found the first victim, and 20 to 30 minutes later found the second victim."

Rampey and Dodd were reportedly flying down to pick up parts for another plane Rampey owned in the area.

Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have been out at the lake all morning Thursday.

“It’s always sad, it’s always tough to hear ... it’s like man, what could he have done to prevent that? And that is what we look at. I take onus in the fact that I can figure out what went wrong and share that with other pilots ..." said Dan Boggs, an NTSB air safety specialist.

Moments before crashing, the pilot said to air traffic control he was having issues with fuel going to the right tank, which NTSB says their crews will look into, as well as plane mechanics, weather, the pilot certification, avionics and more.

Boggs says the choice to land in the water, avoiding houses and roads, definitely prevented the loss of more lives. 

"This is the saddest day in my life, because I have lost my brother — and certainly no ordinary brother," said Stanley Rampey's sister, Ruth, in a statement to Spectrum News 13. "He was a special gift to our family."

Her statement also said that Rampey was a doctor who "loved to practice medicine."

The plane is now on its way to Jacksonville, where NTSB air safety investigators will take it apart top to bottom to figure out what caused the plane to crash.

It typically takes investigators 10 days for a preliminary report, and up to two years for everything to be completely done. 

The police department said in a tweet that Fort Maitland Park was closed.

CLARIFICATION: A previous version of this story included a portion of a quote from Rampey's sister, who said that Rampey had a commercial pilot rating. A search of pilot certifications on FAA.gov shows that Rampey had a private pilot rating but not a commercial rating. The story was amended Friday, June 14, to remove that portion of her quote referencing the commercial rating.