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High winds are being blamed for a Wednesday afternoon plane crash that left four people dead at the Wendover Airport.
According to Airport director Jim Petersen the pilot radioed, into our operations building that he was going to be landing and wanted fuel. The plane then crashed 300 to 400 feet north of the runway.
A construction worker in the area said he saw the plane hit the ground, go back into the air, then crash.
“We have some pretty stiff winds out there. There was a crosswind compliment to it, definitely and he probably had difficulty with it,” Petersen said.
Winds gusts at the Utah Department of Transportation’s Port of Entry were clocked at 45 mph or higher at the time of the crash and a travel advisory for high profile vehicles had been put into effect shortly before the fatal crash.
The pilot and all three passengers died on impact.
Killed in the plane crash were the pilot, Lincoln Marshal Dastrup, 57 years old, from Salt Lake City; Chad A. Wade, 38 years old, from South Jordan; and Justin Michael Yates, 37 years old, from Lehi; Harish Parashar, a 53 year old male from India.
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