SAN LUIS, Colo.—Rescuers say it may be Saturday before they reach the site of a southern Colorado plane crash where a Canadian oil executive and his physician wife are feared dead.
The Costilla County Sheriff’s Department says 67-year-old Gerrit Maureau and his wife, 65-year-old Sheila Malm, both of Calgary, Alberta, were headed to New Mexico for the holidays when the Beechcraft Baron crashed Saturday. Authorities say it’s unlikely either survived.
Maureau is president of MaurOil International Inc., a consulting firm for energy companies, and a former president and CEO of the Canadian Petroleum Institute.
Sheriff’s Sgt. James Chavez says bad weather has kept recovery teams from the wreckage on 13,723-foot-high Vermejo Peak near the New Mexico border.
