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Show 4 guardsmen killed in Doavor crash The wreckage of a private plane carrying four Utah Army National Guardsmen was found near Beaver Sunday. Sun-day. There were no survivors. surviv-ors. Maj. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, Utah adjutant general, identified the four dead as Spec. 4 Randy R. Hoppe, 24, Central, Washington County, the pilot and aircraft owner; Spec. 4 Steven R. Moore, 23, Panguitch; Sec. 4 Randall J. Muir, 26, Beaver; and Sgt. David R. Veater, 24, Panguitch. Pan-guitch. The single-engine Cessna 172 was found Sunday at 2 p.m. about three-quarters of a mile south of the letter "B" on Beaver Mountain. The four men, ammunition ammuni-tion specialists with the Service Ser-vice Battery of the 2nd Battalion, Bat-talion, 222ndFieldArtillery, Beaver, trained Saturday with member s of the battalion's bat-talion's C Battery, Fillmore. They left Fillmore at 4:15 p.m. Saturday. When they failed to arrive in Beaver, an air and ground search was initiated involving Millard and Beaver County law enforcement en-forcement agencies, the Civil Air Patrol, the Utah Army National Guard and volunteers. Crews hunted for the plane itil dark Saturday and resumed re-sumed their search at dawn Sunday. Beaver County Deputy Sheriff Wally Fotheringham said ground crews were hampered in reaching the crash site by six to eight inches of snow. A helicopter was dis-i dis-i patched to the site to look t for survivors. Four-wheel drive vehicles were later brought in to transport the bodies. |