CEDAR CITY — Authorities have identified the pilot and passenger killed in a single-engine plane crash in Iron County Sunday as two men from Las Vegas.
Darwin Mao, 52, and Richard Essex, 63, were pronounced dead at the scene after a plane struck a 300-foot-tall communications tower about 5 miles south of the Cedar City Regional Airport, authorities said. It had taken off from Kane County’s Strawberry Valley Estates Airport.
First responders offered condolences to their families over the weekend.
“Our thoughts and prayer are with the families of the victims at this time,” Iron County Sheriff’s Lt. Del Schlosser said in a statement.
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The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board continue to investigate.