The two men inside were killed when a small plane crashed into Utah Lake on Friday morning.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office’s Spencer Cannon reported that the single-engine aircraft went down shortly after 10 a.m., around 0.5 miles northwest of the Provo airport.
The plane was given the all-clear to land there, according to Cannon.
Michael Hyrum Cox, 44, of St. George, and Mark Andrew Johnson, 46, of Washington, Utah, went lost for several hours before being discovered dead inside the wreckage of the plane, according to the sheriff’s office.
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According to the office, Johnson was a passenger and Cox was the pilot of the aircraft. The state medical examiner will get both bodies.
According to Spencer, “anyone who witnessed the crash would assume that no one could have survived and that it was a significant crash that caused substantial damage to the plane.”
Authorities were still baffled as to why the plane crashed.
Any contact the pilot may have had with the airport tower prior to impact was unclear, save from the fact that the jet was cleared to land.
According to the sheriff’s office, witnesses were on the water in boats at the time of the collision, and investigators got in touch with them later.
The person who called in the emergency, nevertheless, was not identified by the sheriff’s office. It may have been an employee of the airport or a witness aboard a boat.
Crews were working in the wreckage just before 11 a.m., according to Chief Jess Campbell of Saratoga Springs Fire and Rescue. The plane was submerged in about eight feet of water.
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office’s Sgt. Garrett Dutson stated that rescue crews would try to raise the aircraft.
