Arizona couple killed as small plane crashes west of Provo


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CEDAR FORT, Utah (AP) — Authorities say an Arizona couple is dead after their two-engine plane crashed Monday in Utah.

Utah County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Spencer Cannon says witnesses reported "hearing a loud boom and seeing an airplane — on fire and coming apart — falling to the ground."

He identified the dead as 59-year-old Donald L. Baker and his wife, 55-year-old Dawn Elizabeth Hunter, of Tucson, Arizona. Baker was the pilot and owner of the Cessna Citation 525.

The plane went down west of Provo and south of Cedar Fort, near SR-73 shortly before 10 a.m.

Cannon said in a news release that investigators were going through the debris, which was spread across a two-mile area. There was no immediate word on the cause of the crash.

The Arizona Daily Star of Tucson reported that Baker was co-owner of the real estate firm Larsen Baker LLC. The paper said the couple were flying home from Salt Lake City.

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Information from: The Daily Herald, http://www.heraldextra.com

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