Montana crew’s plane crashes in Utah while heading to a fire in New Mexico. Three dead.
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From the AP:
A three-member Montana-based crew flying to a wildfire in southern New Mexico has been killed when the plane crashed in the Oquirrh mountains of Utah today.
Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park says the plane was en route from Missoula to Alamogordo when it failed to clear a mountain pass in Utah.
Park says the pilot, 66-year-old Tom Risk of Littleton, Colorado, and crew members 59-year-old Mike Flynn of Alamogordo and 32-year-old Brian Buss of Alberton, Montana, were killed.
New Mexico Forestry Division spokesman Dan Ware says the crew members from Neptune Aviation were flying to southern New Mexico to help fight a 19,000-acre wildfire.
New Mexico state forester Arthur Blazer says firefighters must pause to mourn their loss, but honor those lost by continuing to fight fires to protect communities.
