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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two college flight instructors are dead after a small plane crash in southern Utah.
Officials from Southern Utah University say that the Cessna 152 went down near Cedar City on Monday afternoon. The two instructors were found dead at the scene in a dry lake bed about 200 yards from a house.
University spokeswoman Ellen Treanor says the instructors were on a test flight when the two-seat plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Cedar City airport.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are probing what caused the crash.
The names of those killed were not immediately released.
Cedar City is located about 250 miles south of Salt Lake City.
There are about 250 students in the university's aviation program, which partners with a private company that provided the plane.
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