A New Castle man and two of his sons died when the plane he was piloting crashed Saturday morning in a remote wilderness area southwest of Crested Butte.
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The Gunnison County coroner said Mark Hendrickson, 46, Alan Hendrickson, 15, and Case Hendrickson, 13, all of New Castle, died in the crash, which was reported around 9:20 a.m. Saturday.
Emergency crews sent to the area near Swampy Pass found all three people on the plane had died in the crash, which is being investigated by the Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office, the National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Forest Service, the coroner’s office said Sunday afternoon.
Social media posts from family members confirmed the relationship between Hendrickson and the teens.
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