WESTCLIFFE, Colo.—At least one person was killed when a small plane crashed in the southern Colorado mountains, authorities said Monday.
The wreckage was found on Monday, one day after the six-seat, single-engine Piper Malibu disappeared over the Sangre de Cristo range.
Lt. Col. Mike Daniels of the Colorado Civil Air Patrol said two people were aboard and both were killed. Ed O’Brien, a Civil Air Patrol captain in Custer County, where the plane was found, said searchers found one body but had been able to check all the wreckage for a second victim.
The plane was registered to a Waterloo, Iowa, address. Authorities haven’t identified anyone aboard.
The plane took off from an airport north of Phoenix on Sunday and was bound for Pueblo. The wreckage was found a mile east of Blueberry Peak, a 12,005-foot mountain about 60 miles west of Pueblo and 110 miles southwest of Denver
Two military helicopters from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., two airplanes from the Colorado Civil Air Patrol and 16 ground searchers were looking for the plane.
