RAYMOND, Neb. - Brook Berringer, the backup quarterback who helped Nebraska win the 1994 national title, was killed Thursday when the small plane he was piloting crashed in a farm field.

Plane owner Harry Barr said the other person killed in the two-seater was Toby Lake, the brother of Berringer's girlfriend.

Berringer, 22, who was expected to be selected in the NFL draft this weekend, held a pilot's license and often flew the plane, Barr said. Berringer had often said he wanted to be a commercial airline pilot.

The 50-year-old plane struggled to a height of 250 feet before crashing into the alfalfa field near this east-central Nebraska village minutes after takeoff from a grass airstrip.

''We could tell it was going slow,'' said Jim Jeffers, who lives about a mile from the crash site 11 miles northwest of Lincoln. ''After takeoff, when the wing dropped, I knew it was going to hit the ground.''

Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner said the bodies were removed from the crash site at about 6:25 p.m. and were taken to a Lincoln hospital.

The sheriff said dental records would be used to officially identify the badly charred bodies.

Berringer had been scheduled to speak Thursday night at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet at the Devaney Center in Lincoln, where players and fans hugged one another when they learned of the crash.

''Brook would want this event to go on as planned,'' Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said at the banquet. ''I know he would want it to be done in the spirit with which it was intended - to honor God. Brook honored God. Brook enjoyed life to the fullest.''

Assistant Raymond Fire Chief Harold Danly said the plane was in flames and the passengers were dead when firefighters arrived about 3 p.m.

''It's just a pile of iron,'' said George Johnson, the man who owns the field where the plane crashed.