North Dakota state senator, spouse and a couple of children killed in aircraft crash

BISMARCK, N.D. — A state senator from North Dakota, his spouse and their two younger kids died when the small aircraft they had been using crashed in Utah, a Senate chief mentioned Monday.

Doug Larsen’s dying was confirmed Monday in an electronic mail that Republican Senate Majority Leader David Hogue despatched to his fellow senators and was obtained by The Associated Press.

The aircraft crashed Sunday night shortly after taking off from Canyonlands Airfield about 15 miles (24 kilometers) north of Moab, in response to a Grand County Sheriff’s Department assertion posted on Facebook. The sheriff’s workplace mentioned all 4 individuals on board the aircraft had been killed.

“Senator Doug Larsen, his wife Amy, and their two young children died in a plane crash last evening in Utah,” Hogue wrote in his electronic mail. “They were visiting family in Scottsdale and returning home. They stopped to refuel in Utah.”

The crash of the single-engine Piper aircraft was being investigated, the National Transportation Safety Board mentioned in a put up on X, the social media web site previously known as Twitter.

A telephone message left with sheriff’s officers in search of extra info wasn’t instantly returned Monday.