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Show Deputies Investigate Fotol Plane Wreck from Sacramento to Scott's Bluff, Nebraska. When the craft turned up missing, the FAA embarked upon an extensive air search involving 29 planes. Although the area which gave up the wreck's location this week was coverd, nothing was found. Dick Stout, Military Liason Security Officer for the FAA told the RECORD that the heavily wooded area of the Uinta Mountains made the wreck impossible to spot from the air although a wing was discovered lodged atop a pine tree. "When they go down in pines," explained Mr. Stout, "The branches bend back in place completely covering up any trace." The cause of the crash remains unknown save for premature guesses. The results of an extensive investigation conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board will officially determine deter-mine why the plane went down. The Board will go through the airplane inch by inch testing the engine to see if it was running at the time of impact, determining weight and balance by checking the weights of passengers, luggage and fuel, analyzing weather conditions for the day of the accident, etc. Mr. Stout indicated that the plane was flying at a minimum altitude of 12,000 feet and at that height the slightest maneuver could cause the plane to over re-act possibly sending it into a spin. Summit County deputies played play-ed an integral role this week in preliminary investigation procedures pro-cedures and the removal of four bodies from the wreckage of a light aircraft which crashed in the Uinta Mountains near Mirror Lake June 29. The wreck of the four passenger, passeng-er, single engine Stinson was discovered by Michael C'de Baca, a New Mexican hiker who told the Salt Lake Tribune that .he had been by the are a year ago and "had a premonition of finding some crash." Mr. C'de Baca hurried out of the area and notified Summit County deputies late Saturday night of the find, indicating that the plane still contained the bodies of four passengers. Early Sunday deputies Larry Henley and Leon Wilde accompanied accom-panied by the Summit County Jeep Patrol, several volunteers, representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration and National Na-tional Transportation Board began the trek into the Uintas to a site one mile north of Pass Lake between the Kamas Lake and Holiday Park trails. There they met Sheriff Ron Robinson, Deputies Steve Scott and Doyle Hanks and surveyed the grisley scene. Found dead were the pilot Harold Robert Hatch, his wife Joan Ellen Hatch, and parents Dee Harold and Claire O. Hatch. All four were from Sacramento, California. A medical report indicated that all four died instantly of multiple injuries suffered in the crash. 29 Planes Searched The plane was last heard from after re-fueling in Ogden at 2 :52 p.m. June 29. It was on route i 1 A i A 1 i ' |
