The cause of the crash Wednesday is under investigation.
GRAND COUNTY, Utah — Two people are dead after a plane headed from Colorado to Washington crashed in Utah Wednesday.
The Grand County, Utah Sheriff’s Office said they received a report of a downed aircraft in a remote area near the Colorado border.
The sheriff’s office said the multi-engine plane, a Hawker 900XP, was a chartered aircraft on its way to Tacoma, Washington from Grand Junction Regional Airport.
The two people on board, a pilot and co-pilot, were both killed in the crash. Their names have not been released.
Records show the plane was registered to an aviation company out of Houston.
The cause of the crash is under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
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