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2 Die in Colorado Plane Crash

What: Beech 60 Duke en route from Brownwood Regional Airport, Texas to Colorado
Where: 3 1/2 miles North of Edwards, Colorado
When: Dec 15, 2010, 4:30
Who: 2 aboard, pilot Barton Harris and Jerry Hoggatt
Why: While en route, the pilot lost radar contact with the Eagle County and Denver airports while making a final approach to the Eagle County Regional Airport in Eagle. Pilot, Barton Harris, 67, of Brownwood, Texas, and Jerry Hoggatt, 73, of Pelham, Alabama, were flying to ski in Colorado.

The wreckage was found by a National Guard OS58 helicopter crew 3.5 miles north of Edwards in steep terrain at an elevation of approximately 10,800 feet.

The plane is registered to Barton Harris of Brownwood, Texas.

Eagle County Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting, Eagle County Ambulance District, Eagle County Coroner’s Office, Eagle County Sheriff’s Office, Eagle River Fire Protection District, Garfield Search and Rescue, Greater Eagle Fire Protection District, the Salvation Army, Summit County Search and Rescue, Vail Mountain Rescue, Vail Police Department and Western Eagle County Search and Rescue assisted in the recovery.

Harris had spent 12 years as a Navy aviator. Harris was co-founder of W.T. Harris Company, a service firm providing warehousing, transportation, assembly work and wooden pallets, crates and other products.

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