Thursday, March 26, 2015

1 PERSON IS DEAD AND ANOTHER IS INJURED AFTER THEIR PLANE CRASHED IN THE BIG BELT MOUNTAINS IN MONTANA





MARCH 26, 2015

HELENA, MONTANA

One person (the plane pilot) is dead and another (his wife) is in the hospital after the plane they were flying in crashed in the Big Belt Mountains near Hidden Lake.  They were both from Canada.
According to Meagher County Sheriff John Lopp, 911 dispatchers received a call around 1 p.m. on Thursday from a woman saying the plane she was flying in had crashed.

Lopp says the crash site is located near Hidden Lake, west of White Sulphur Springs in steep and rugged terrain with trees and waist-deep snow.

We're told the woman was located at about 5:45 p.m. on Thursday and then flown to St. Peter's Hospital in Helena for treatment.

Emergency crews also recovered the body of a man in the wreckage.

Personnel from Malmstrom Air Force Base and Meagher County Search and Rescue were directed to the site by Montana State Aeronautics and guided there by the plane's emergency locator transmitter.

The plane took off from Great Falls International Airport just before noon and according to FlightAware.com, was en route to Arizona. We're told both people were both from Canada.

The two were flying in a small, single-engine Saratoga Piper Cub.

The Federal Aviation Administration will be investigating the crash.