Thursday, March 27, 2014

Crews hope to recover crash victims today



A salvage team in Colarado  hopes to recover the bodies of five people and the wreckage of a single-engine airplane from a southwestern Colorado reservoir today if the weather is favorable.  Divers expect to start work this morning at Ridgway Reservoir, where the plane crashed Saturday.  Divers confirmed Monday the bodies of all five victims are still inside the wreckage. The Socata TBM700 is upside down and partially buried in silt under about 60 feet of water.Authorities say the wreckage must be pulled to shore before they can safely remove the bodies. Authorities haven't released the victims' names. But confirmed the flight originated in Gadsden, and was flying to Montrose, about 25 miles north of the reservoir. The plane's owner, Jimmy Hill, Katrina Barksdale, and her children Kobe and Xander, along with her nephew Seth McDuffie, were on the plane.

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