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Show 4Mb- t f ,K'" '' 1 .. - ft-. - -ir. - I f : " -"' .,' , ' ' ,'- '- r t i i . j . T . i f ' ' " ... , . ... ... . . ... . . . . .. Sheriffs deputies and search rescue crews from Garfield and Wayne Counties found this small plane that crashed on Boulder Mountain near Big Lake on Friday. Shane BOULDER Authorities in Garfield and Wayne counties were notified late Friday night and early Saturday morning of a possible missing plane, with a flight path from Holbrook, Ariz., to Salina and ultimately to Provo, that may have gone down in their respective coun- lies. Following nearly a day of searching on Saturday the wreckage of the red and white, single engine four-seater aircraft was spotted near Big Lake on Boulder Mountain. Killed on impact Friday, Oct. 3 were pilot Shane Rex Warenski, 32, of Cedar Hills and close friend and fellow worker, Joseph Kenneth Eisel, 27 of Salina. Shane was the middle brother in the Warenski . family and, worked as a superintendent for Cal Wadsworth Construction. He had been overseeing construction con-struction of a new schoolhouse for the Holbrook Unified School District in Holbrook, Ariz. Eisel had befriended Warenski a few short months previous, as he vorked as a concrete mason on jjic same construction project, v --Warenski ami Eisel were fly-, '.ng home at the end of their work week each week, endeavoring endeav-oring to spend as much time with their families as possible. They left Holbrook Friday afternoon after-noon and probably ran into scattered scat-tered rainstorms in the Garfield County area. A fairly new pilot, Warenski was spending time regularly practicing his passion for flying after work each day at the Holbrook Municipal Airport. It is thought that both the weather and Warenski's limited flying Warenski, 32, of Cedar Hills and Joseph Eisel, 27, of Salina, were both killed in the crash. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. Two Killed In Friday Plane Crash On Boulder Mtn. experience may have played a part in the fatal crash. Warenski's and Eisel's families fami-lies became alarmed when the men had failed to arrive home when expected on Friday evening. The Search On Friday, Wayne County Deputy Chris Chappcll received a late night call about the missing miss-ing aircraft and was asked by Richfield Dispatch to travel to the Hanksville Airport to see is if there were any indication of the craft having been in that area. Chappell checked the Wayne County Airport at Bick-nell Bick-nell as well, since it was well after midnight and no one was on hand at those facilities. Chappell waited until mid-moming mid-moming to assemble search and rescue for more precise information infor-mation to come forth on the investigation. In the meantime, Garfield County Deputy Ray Gardner was notified by Garfield Dispatch around 6:30 a.m. Saturday to call out his Boulder Search and Rescue team and they rendezvoused at Round-Up Flat on Hwy. 12 on Boulder mountain. They were frustrated somewhat that by mid-morning they had received no pertinent information about where to search, only a vague general description that the plane could be between Wild Cat Ranger Station and Big Lake, a huge area to search. Meanwhile, Deputy Chappell in Wayne County had called Richfield Dispatch back by mid-morning mid-morning and gotten direction of travel and last known coordinates coordi-nates of the missing flight. He had Bob Cox, head of Wayne County Search and Rescue plug those coordinates into his GPS system and the group headed out for an exhaustive search. Deputy Gardner, had been waiting for the Civil Air Patrol to locate the downed craft, and CAP had at one time upwards of eight aircraft pressed into the search. Gardner thought he would hear once again from dispatch dis-patch with more information. Not knowing if Wayne County had even been informed of the downed plane, Gardner finally placed a call to Chappell around 1 1 a.m. and Chappell passed along the important coordinates to the Garfield group which (See CRASH on page 5A) Plane Crashes In Garfield From Front Page immediately headed toward the Big Lake area on Boulder mountain. The Retrieval The coordinates were about a half hour out of Bicknell up the road leading to Posey Lake. One of the Wayne County team stumbled upon the wreckage around 2:40 p.m. just one-half mile from the coordinates that were GPS'd. The Wayne County crew secured a 50-foot perimeter around the accident site until Garfield County searchers could arrive, because the site was definitely located in Garfield County territory, deferring defer-ring the investigation to them. Gardner mounted a four-wheeler four-wheeler and took off over the mountain, in close touch with Chappell while the other searchers headed over to Bicknell via the highway. Garfield County's Escalante Deputy John Chambers also arrived on the scene and began taking the photos necessary for his report as Gardner notified dispatch and subsequently the family about the discovered wreckage. Chappell, who is the Deputy Medical Examiner for southern Utah secured the victims once the preliminary observations and records were made at the scene. He subsequently took drivers licenses from both victims vic-tims and transported them down the mountain to the Sunglow Cafe parking lot in Bicknell, around 7:30 p.m. where they were to be met by Neal S. Magleby & Sons Mortuary which had been called to provide pro-vide transportation to the State Medical Examiner's facility in Salt Lake City. The Identification Upon arrival at the cafe, they found members of Warenski's immediate family, two brothers, who had been awaiting the arrival of the rescue team. They asked to view the drivers license and knew immediately the outcome out-come of the tragedy. Both brothers work closely with their family mortuary business, Warenski's Funeral Home in American Fork. They were allowed to personally transport their brother and his friend to Salt Lake City for examination prior to burial. Alma Magleby, who was very understanding, graciously returned to Richfield. Deputy Gardner had one of his Boulder Search and Rescue members who had a four-wheel drive vancamper, stay overnight at the scene to secure the site. On Sunday, Gardner escorted two men with the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board back up the mountain moun-tain to begin their investigation. The remains of the plane will be transported to a hangar in Spanish Fork for further examination. exami-nation. Shane Warenski is survived by his wife, Bonnie and three small children, Sienna 7-12, Mason, 4 and Savanna 3 weeks. Warenski married in 1992 and had an unquenchable quest for knowledge and learned from life's adventures. He was an avid outdoorsman and loved hunting, fishing and four wheeling. wheel-ing. He was respected and loved by his co-workers, family and friends and will be remembered remem-bered as a hard worker with big aspirations in life. His younger brother Shannon noted "he lived life absolutely 100 percent." Funeral services are set for Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Manilla LDS Stake in American Fork under the direction of Warenski Funeral Home in American Fork. Joseph Eisel is survived by wife, Brandi Houghton Eisel whom he married in 1999 in Payson. He had two small children, chil-dren, KaliJo Alene, 3 and Kenneth Chad "KC", 1. Eisel also was an avid outdoorsman, well-liked by everyone who knew him and "just plain fun" to be around. He loved hunting with his hound dogs, camping and just being outdoors. Funeral services for Eisel are also set for Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Wallsburg Town Hall under the direction of Walker Sanderson Funeral Home in Orem. |