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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two college aviation teachers who died in a small plane crash in southern Utah were identified Tuesday as a chief instructor and his new colleague.
Alan Carver, 50, and Nathan Stoddard, 24, were killed when the Cessna 152 went down near Cedar City during a routine test flight on Monday afternoon, according to the Iron County Sheriff's Office.
Carver was a retired Air Force pilot who was the chief instructor for Southern Utah University's fixed-wing aircraft program, authorities said. Stoddard had just started work with SUU as a junior flight instructor three days before the crash.
Carver joined SUU in 2013. He leaves a wife and three children.
Stoddard had been a transportation agent at Keystone Aviation in Salt Lake City before he moved about 250 miles south to Cedar City.
The bodies of the two men were found dead at the crash site in a dry lake bed. The two-seat plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Cedar City airport.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating what caused the crash.
There are about 250 students in the university's aviation program, which partners with Upper Limit Aviation, the company that owns the plane.
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