Overview
- The single‑engine Epic E1000 went down shortly after 12:19 a.m. on the south side of Emerald Mountain during an approach to Bob Adams Airport.
- Routt County officials recovered four bodies, with identification and next‑of‑kin notification pending, and the area remains secured with access restricted.
- FAA and NTSB personnel are investigating, and the NTSB said Friday an investigator was arriving to document the site and oversee recovery of the aircraft.
- Flight‑tracking reports indicate the aircraft departed Kansas City’s Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport and was registered to ALS Aviation LLC of Franklin, Tennessee.
- Automated observations near the time reported visibility between five and ten miles, light winds, and low broken to overcast cloud layers roughly 1,400 to 4,100 feet above ground level.