LANDER, Wyo.—Federal aviation investigators say ground controllers were unable to make radio contact with a single-engine airplane that crashed and burned in the Wind River Range of western Wyoming, killing both people aboard.
A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report says controllers in Salt Lake City tried to contact the Beechcraft A36 Bonanza after it disappeared from radar screens at about 1 p.m. on Aug. 14.
Authorities say the plane crashed at about 11,400 feet above sea level 20 miles west of Lander. The names of the pilot and passenger weren’t immediately available.
The plane was registered to a company in Parker, Colo. It had taken off from Driggs, Idaho, and was en route to Front Range Airport outside Denver.
The NTSB report released last week doesn’t speculate on the cause.
