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A thread in hanger talk was about a tree house that the city found to be illegal. The link was to a newspaper in Park City. Also on that page was a story about a small plane going down. Here it is.
Officials begin plane crash investigation
Recovering » Two firefighters survived plane crash that killed a third
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 11/22/2008 09:39:49 PM MST
Two Salt Lake City firefighters remained hospitalized Saturday as officials began an investigation into Friday's small plane crash. A third city firefighter aboard the plane, 25-year-old Dylan Hopkins, died of injuries suffered during the emergency landing high in the Uinta Mountains.
The three were flying to Colorado Springs for a weekend trip in a Cessna 172 belonging to firefighter Craig Weaver, who was piloting the plane.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker decreed Saturday that flags at all Salt Lake City fire stations be flown at half-staff until after Hopkins' burial.
All three men are from Station No. 5, located near 900 South and 900 East.
Weaver and another passenger, Bryon Meyer, were in serious but stable condition at University Hospital about noon Saturday, said Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag.
"They're both still doing all right as far as being conscious and alert and talking to doctors and nurses and their families," he said. Doctors were still working to determine the extent of the two men's injuries, and how long they might be in the hospital, Freitag said.
A loss of power could have forced Weaver to execute an emergency landing in the mountains about 20 miles from Kamas, said Wasatch County Sheriff's Deputy Travus Jensen, but it's unclear what might have caused the power loss, or where it happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board started an investigation Friday, said
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NTSB spokesman Terry Williams, though investigators have not visited the scene or talked to the survivors.
Investigations usually take about a year.
The three men landed in a small clearing Friday. About 12:15 p.m., Weaver called AirMed dispatch to report the crash. After a 90-minute search for the plane, which was nearly invisible in the snow at 9,800 feet, helicopters rescued the three men. Hopkins died about 3 p.m.
Following the rescue, Jensen rode a snowmobile for nine miles to reach the scene, which was in rocky terrain buried beneath about a foot of snow. The plane's nose was crushed, he said, and its body had split nearly in half close to the tail.
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John
Officials begin plane crash investigation
Recovering » Two firefighters survived plane crash that killed a third
By Lindsay Whitehurst
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 11/22/2008 09:39:49 PM MST
Two Salt Lake City firefighters remained hospitalized Saturday as officials began an investigation into Friday's small plane crash. A third city firefighter aboard the plane, 25-year-old Dylan Hopkins, died of injuries suffered during the emergency landing high in the Uinta Mountains.
The three were flying to Colorado Springs for a weekend trip in a Cessna 172 belonging to firefighter Craig Weaver, who was piloting the plane.
Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker decreed Saturday that flags at all Salt Lake City fire stations be flown at half-staff until after Hopkins' burial.
All three men are from Station No. 5, located near 900 South and 900 East.
Weaver and another passenger, Bryon Meyer, were in serious but stable condition at University Hospital about noon Saturday, said Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman Scott Freitag.
"They're both still doing all right as far as being conscious and alert and talking to doctors and nurses and their families," he said. Doctors were still working to determine the extent of the two men's injuries, and how long they might be in the hospital, Freitag said.
A loss of power could have forced Weaver to execute an emergency landing in the mountains about 20 miles from Kamas, said Wasatch County Sheriff's Deputy Travus Jensen, but it's unclear what might have caused the power loss, or where it happened.
The National Transportation Safety Board started an investigation Friday, said
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NTSB spokesman Terry Williams, though investigators have not visited the scene or talked to the survivors.
Investigations usually take about a year.
The three men landed in a small clearing Friday. About 12:15 p.m., Weaver called AirMed dispatch to report the crash. After a 90-minute search for the plane, which was nearly invisible in the snow at 9,800 feet, helicopters rescued the three men. Hopkins died about 3 p.m.
Following the rescue, Jensen rode a snowmobile for nine miles to reach the scene, which was in rocky terrain buried beneath about a foot of snow. The plane's nose was crushed, he said, and its body had split nearly in half close to the tail.
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