{"id":95398,"date":"2019-02-27T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-plane-lost-radio-contact-before-crash-in-nevada\/"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T04:16:04","slug":"colorado-plane-lost-radio-contact-before-crash-in-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-plane-lost-radio-contact-before-crash-in-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado plane lost radio contact before crash in Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9e51ab51-b701-4352-b3e2-feef7c40d31c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9e51ab51-b701-4352-b3e2-feef7c40d31c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9e51ab51-b701-4352-b3e2-feef7c40d31c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9e51ab51-b701-4352-b3e2-feef7c40d31c&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=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ELY, Nev. \u2014 Air traffic controllers lost contact with a small plane in bad weather before it crashed in eastern Nevada this month, killing a Colorado couple.<\/p>\n<p>The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary accident report Wednesday the pilot, 72-year-old Phillip Bethell of Moffett County, Colorado, was headed from Craig, Colorado to Twin Falls, Idaho on Feb. 15 when he diverted toward Ely near the Utah line.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB says Bethell was instructed to remain above 10,500 feet (3.2 kilometers) due to an active military area but continued to descend to a lower elevation because of the weather.<\/p>\n<p>An Ely resident who lives near the airport told the NTSB the weather was so bad he couldn\u2019t see the house next door when he heard a low-flying plane.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Linda Bethell, 66, also died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>du1-i-syn ELY, Nev. \u2014 Air traffic controllers lost contact with a small plane in bad weather before it crashed in eastern Nevada this month, killing a Colorado couple. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary accident report Wednesday the pilot, 72-year-old Phillip Bethell of Moffett County, Colorado, was headed from Craig, Colorado to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[120,701],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-95398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado","tag-disasters-and-crashes"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95398","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=95398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95398"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=95398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}