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2 People Killed In Small Plane Crash

WESTCLIFFE, Colo. (AP) - Both people on board were killed when a small plane crashed in the southern Colorado mountains.

The wreckage was found on Monday, one day after the six-seat, single-engine Piper Malibu disappeared over the Sangre de Cristo range. Robert Pruiksma (PROOKS'-ma) of Custer County Search and Rescue says both people were dead.

The plane was registered to a Waterloo, Iowa, address. Authorities haven't released the victims' names.

The search and rescue team plans to return to the mountain Tuesday to remove the bodies.

The plane left an airport north of Phoenix on Sunday and was bound for Pueblo. The wreckage was found a mile east of Blueberry Peak, a 12,005-foot mountain about 60 miles west of Pueblo and 110 miles southwest of Denver.

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