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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Search crews have found the bodies of all nine skydivers and the pilot in the wreckage of an airplane that went missing over the Cascade mountains of Washington state on Sunday, a state spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Searchers located seven bodies on Monday night and three others on Tuesday morning, Nisha Marvel, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Department of Transportation, told Reuters.

The dead include the pilot of the downed Cessna 208 Caravan and nine passengers, all skydivers who had been returning to western Washington from an event in Idaho.

Search crews were directed to the general area of the crash site by a hunter's report of an airplane in distress and by following the smell of fuel. They discovered the site on Monday night in rough mountainous terrain and amid heavy timber in an area of the Cascades range west of Yakima, Washington, Marvel said.

Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board investigations into the crash are under way.

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