Iowa Doctor, Woman ID'd As Colorado Crash Victims
WESTCLIFFE, Colo. (AP) - A search team has recovered the bodies of two Iowa residents killed when a small plane crashed in the southern Colorado mountains.
Authorities say 66-year-old Dr. Michael O. Welton and 70-year-old Roswitha Marold died when the plane went down in the Sangre de Cristo range on Sunday.
The bodies were recovered Tuesday.
Custer County Search and Rescue says the couple were friends and Welton was the pilot. Aviation records show Welton lived in Waterloo, Iowa. The six-seat, single-engine Piper Malibu was registered to him.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Marold was a retired business owner from Waterloo.
They were flying from the Phoenix area to Pueblo, Colo. The wreckage was found Monday at about 9,700 feet elevation.
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