POWELL COUNTY, Mont. (WHNT) – Three people killed in a plane crash in Montana are believed to be a Huntsville man and his two daughters.
The sheriff’s office in Powell County, Montana, said it received a report of a possible downed aircraft on Friday afternoon.
Air resources were deployed to an area in from Malstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls and continued to search until around midnight. On Saturday around 9 a.m., PCSO said a helicopter located the wreckage of the aircraft in a wooded area.
The pilot and two other occupants were pronounced dead at the scene, according to PCSO.
The Monte Sano Baptist Church’s facebook page said in a post on Saturday afternoon that Mark Anderson, and his daughters Ellie and Lainey, from Huntsville went missing while flying to Polson, Montana. The post says Mark Anderson is an experienced pilot, and their plane was located on Saturday.
The church also asked people for prayers for the family.
The Powell County Sheriff’s Office has turned the investigation over to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, which will lead efforts to determine the cause of the crash.
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