{"id":29750,"date":"2024-01-10T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-die-in-plane-crash-in-forest-north-of-dolores\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:03:09","slug":"two-die-in-plane-crash-in-forest-north-of-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-die-in-plane-crash-in-forest-north-of-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"Two die in plane crash in forest north of Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Two people died this weekend in a plane crash in a remote area north of Dolores that contains private and San Juan National Forest land, according to Montezuma County Sheriff Steven Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Search and Rescue and Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office located the single-engine plane about 2 p.m. Sunday and confirmed that two people, reported missing Saturday, had died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Nowlin told <em id=\"emphasis-ca4976262f54bf3ddc7db17bf3c52ea9\">The Journal<\/em> on Tuesday that the Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call late Saturday night from a family member who said their family members, who were flying in the plane, were overdue.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the deceased have not been released, and Nowlin said the bodies have not been positively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a federal investigation, Nowlin said he could not release details including the pair\u2019s flight plan.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies have been taken to the Montezuma County Coroner\u2019s Office. The cause of death is expected Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from the National Traffic Safety Board in Denver and Federal Aviation Administration in Salt Lake City arrived Monday to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NTSB and FAA will determine that through their investigation, which will take a lot longer with the examination of everything with the aircraft as to the cause of the crash, whether it is mechanical or pilot error \u2026 who knows,\u201d Nowlin said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-5a3edeb972826fd9442ba4efc88eb976\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-engine plane discovered Sunday afternoon <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[386,21,44,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-29750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-cortez","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750","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=29750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80844,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750\/revisions\/80844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29750"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=29750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}