Five people killed in Care Flight air ambulance crash in Nevada

Care Flight also said it was halting flights while it focused on helping responding agencies, team members and families.

The deadly Care Flight crash on Friday night was the second US plane wreck in two days that left five passengers dead.

On Wednesday, executives with an Arkansas-based environmental consulting firm died shortly after their plane took off from Little Rock. The group was headed to a metals plant near Cleveland, Ohio, where an explosion killed one employee and injured more than a dozen others.

Those killed in the Arkansas plane crash worked for CTEH, and they were identified as pilot Sean Sweeney as well as passengers Micah Kendrick, Kyle Bennett, Gunter Beaty and Glenmarkus Walker, according to the local news outlet KARK.

Federal aviation and transportation officials are investigating the circumstances of both the Care Flight and CTEH crashes. Such investigations can typically take a year or more to complete.

The Associated Press contributed reporting