Monday, April 16, 2012

Nevada Man Dies In Airplane Crash in Sweetwater County

A plane crash in southern Sweetwater County took the life of a Winnemucca, Nevada man on April 12th. Sweetwater County Sheriff Detective Dick Blust, Jr. says that 65 year old Cranfill A. “Buster High took off from Sidney, Nebraska in his twin-engine Cessna 320D at 3:30 PM Mountain time on April 12th and was originally headed for Riverton, Wyoming, where he had family.







Working with radar-sourced coordinates, county deputies launched a search and located the crash site around at around 10:00 AM some 22 and a half miles southwest of Green River near Dry Creek. 







Blust says investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board have begun their investigation. No information about the cause of the crash was available.

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