{"id":50190,"date":"2020-11-27T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-one-victim-of-fatal-plane-crash-near-telluride-identified\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:50:13","slug":"update-one-victim-of-fatal-plane-crash-near-telluride-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-one-victim-of-fatal-plane-crash-near-telluride-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: One victim of fatal plane crash near Telluride identified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=35eb7175-a519-4633-b40f-efeb63e40bb8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1563\" height=\"1004\" alt=\"A Van\u2019s Aircraft RV-4, a homebuilt aircraft made from a kit supplied by Van\u2019s Aircraft of Aurora, Oregon. It seats two people.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Van\u2019s Aircraft RV-4, a homebuilt aircraft made from a kit supplied by Van\u2019s Aircraft of Aurora, Oregon. It seats two people.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Wikipedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A plane crash on Thursday east of Telluride killed both people on board, according to the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot has been identified by the Sheriff as Bryan Lee Kill, 48, of Huachuca City, Arizona. He had recently moved to Telluride.<\/p>\n<p>Kill was traveling with a female passenger who was also killed. Her name has not been released pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The single-engine private plane was on approach to the Telluride Regional Airport at 1:30 p.m. when the airport lost contact. Several witnesses reported seeing the aircraft go down.<\/p>\n<p>About 2:30 p.m. the pilot and passenger were found dead at the crash site near Telluride, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The plane, a Van\u2019s Aircraft RV-4, had taken off from Durango-La Plata County Airport at 12:30 p.m. Thursday en route to Telluride, according to Flight Aware and the Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office, San Miguel Search and Rescue, Telluride Fire Department, and San Miguel Coroner are investigating the scene and working to recover the victims.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board have been notified, and a response plan for those agencies is being formulated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FAA, the downed plane was found 0.5 miles east of Telluride and occurred under unknown circumstances at this time. Damage to the aircraft was substantial.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 5, another fatal plane crash east of Telluride killed a newlywed couple, Costas John Sivyllis, and Lindsey Vogelaar, both of Port Orange, Florida. Their plane crashed 15 minutes after takeoff, and is under investigation by the NTSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was approaching airport when it went down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[874,21,950,13,28,29,97],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-50190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-air-and-space-crash","tag-cortez","tag-durango","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-telluride"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50190","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=50190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87708,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50190\/revisions\/87708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50190"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=50190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}