By Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post The 110-year prison sentence meted out Dec. 13 to the truck driver who killed four people when he lost his brakes on Interstate 70 put a renewed spotlight on Colorado’s mandatory-minimum sentencing laws and on district attorneys’ ability to use such laws to ensure convictions lead to prison time. […]
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Pilot killed in small plane crash in western Colorado
GRAND JUNCTION — Authorities say one person was killed in a small plane crash in western Colorado. The Daily Sentinel reports search crews with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office found the wreckage of the beech baron twin-engine plane in a remote area northeast of Grand Junction on Monday. The pilot was the only one onboard when the […]
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Loose fuel hose blamed for causing fiery, deadly plane crash near Northern Colorado Regional Airport
A deadly plane crash near Northern Colorado Regional Airport last year was likely caused by an engine fire, the National Transportation Safety Board has found. The agency said in a probable cause crash report that the blaze started because of a loose fuel hose on the twin-engine, propeller Beech 60 being flown by Thomas Lawson, […]
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Pilot dies after small plane crashes in western Colorado
One person is dead after a small plane crashed on Sunday morning while trying to land at an airport in western Colorado . The crash happened about 11:15 a.m. at Delta’s Blake Field Airport. The Delta County Sheriff’s Office said the plane — a single-engine, propellor Rans S-12 — crashed on the airport’s property. The […]
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Pilot of plane that crashed in Colorado mountains, went undiscovered for months blamed for fatal wreck
The pilot of an unmaintained airplane that crashed high in the Colorado mountains and went undiscovered for months last year did not adequately plan out his flight or anticipate the weather conditions, which likely brought his plane down, federal air crash investigators say. Quentin Aschoff, a 67-year-old from Bend, Oregon, died in the wreck of […]
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Plane crash that killed Fort Collins family of four blamed on pilot’s decision making, weather
The 2017 crash of a single-engine airplane near Glenwood Springs, killing a Fort Collins family of four, was caused by the pilot’s decision to fly into weather conditions he was not rated to handle and his lack of pre-takeoff planning, federal investigators said this week. Those are the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board’s […]
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CDOT is looking for a great idea to keep cars from crashing into wildlife
If you’ve got a great idea on how to stop a deer from leaping into headlights, you just may help Colorado solve one of its worst rural-traffic nightmares: collisions with wildlife. The state’s Department of Transportation is challenging the public to come up with ideas that use technology to address this issue. According to the […]