{"id":109355,"date":"2015-09-22T15:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pilots-of-crashed-plane-encountered-bad-weather-2\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T21:08:29","slug":"pilots-of-crashed-plane-encountered-bad-weather-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pilots-of-crashed-plane-encountered-bad-weather-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots of crashed plane encountered bad weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=723e78c4-3204-4d38-8ae7-29212e283af8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=723e78c4-3204-4d38-8ae7-29212e283af8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=723e78c4-3204-4d38-8ae7-29212e283af8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=723e78c4-3204-4d38-8ae7-29212e283af8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"933\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Members of the San Juan County and La Plata County search and rescue teams work at the scene of a plane crash nine miles west of Silverton.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Members of the San Juan County and La Plata County search and rescue teams work at the scene of a plane crash nine miles west of Silverton.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Jim Donovan\/San Juan County Search and Rescue<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the conclusions in a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Traffic Safety Board, which is investigating the plane crash that killed four California residents.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB report indicates the crash occurred about 2:08 p.m. Sept. 5, when the twin-engine Cessna 310H \u201cimpacted mountainous terrain at an elevation of about 11,500 feet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wreckage was located the next day near the head of Cascade Creek at Grizzly Peak, about nine miles west of Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Weather was partly cloudy in Silverton that day, but there were some rain squalls and a thunderstorm was reported in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary NTSB report also says that the two pilots aboard were not rated to fly a twin-engine plane and were not operating on a flight plan.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the pilot was not using \u201cflight-following services by air traffic control,\u201d the NTSB reported.<\/p>\n<p>San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad identified the victims as pilot Harold Joseph Raggio, 72, of Big Bear, California; Steven Dale Wilkinson, 59, of Newberry Springs, California; Rosalinda Leslie, 57, of Hesperia, California; and Michael Lyle Riley, 59, of Barstow, California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the San Juan County and La Plata County search and rescue teams work at the scene of a plane crash nine miles west of Silverton.Courtesy of Jim Donovan\/San Juan County Search and Rescue That\u2019s one of the conclusions in a preliminary report released Thursday by the National Traffic Safety Board, which is investigating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,308,83,629],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-109355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-local-elections","tag-mancos","tag-southern-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109355"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=109355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}