A Box Elder County dive team removed two men’s bodies from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into the Great Salt Lake, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
The men — 71-year-old pilot Denny Mansell and passenger Peter Ellis, 74 — had been missing since they took off from the Ogden Hinckley Airport on Dec. 29, en route to the Promontory area.
National Transportation Safety Bureau investigators were on scene for the recovery, and will investigate the crash and eventually remove the plane from the lake, the release states.