The pilot of a twin-engine plane was killed late Thursday when he crashed 10 miles south of Roosevelt near the border of Uintah and Duchesne counties.
The pilot, whose name had not been released Friday morning, left Grand Junction, Colo. at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, bound for Salt Lake City, said Col. Larry Brown of the Utah Wing Civil Air Patrol.No one else was on board the six-passenger plane. Brown did not know if the pilot was from Utah or Colorado.
Air Patrol pilots located the plane, a Piper PA-34 200 T Seneca, at 8:15 a.m. Friday, after repeatedly flying over the pilot's expected route.
The search began in earnest at about 5:30 a.m., after the plane did not turn up on a check of airstrips between Colorado and Utah. At some point during the flight, the pilot lost contact with the Salt Lake air traffic control center, Brown said.
Sheriff's deputies from both counties reached the wreckage about 10 a.m. Friday.
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration were headed to the scene Friday.