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PROVO — Two men were killed in a plane crash in Utah County near Kyhv Peak on Tuesday. A third man survived the crash, however, and was believed to be in fair condition Tuesday afternoon.
The Utah County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday night identified the survivor as a 22-year-old Springville man. He is being treated at Utah Valley Hospital. The two men killed in the crash are a 26-year-old man from Hideout, Wasatch County, and a 23-year-old man from Santaquin. The names of the victims were not released Tuesday.
Utah County search and rescue crews were notified of a possible downed aircraft about 11:15 a.m.
Crews from the Provo Fire Department were the first to spot the wreckage. Cannon said they saw the lone survivor walking outside of the plane and waving to search crews in the air. A Life Flight helicopter was able to hoist that person off the mountain and to a local hospital. As of Tuesday afternoon, crews were still working to extricate the two deceased passengers from the aircraft.
Cannon said he did not immediately know the ages or genders of any of the three people on the plane. The wreckage was about 300 to 400 yards off Kyhv Peak Road, which was formerly named Squaw Peak, in the mountains east of Provo. Cannon said the crash is at about 8,000 feet elevation and parallel with Slate Canyon.
