Pilot of single-engine biplane dies in Western Slope crash

A aviator died Friday greeting successful a single-engine level clang connected the Western Slope.

At astir 8 a.m. the Delta County Communication Center received a telephone astir a imaginable level crash, according to a sheriff’s bureau quality release. The caller said helium past saw the level astir 10 miles northeast of Delta.

The sheriff’s bureau and the Cedaredge Fire Department responded to the remote, rugged country and recovered the wreckage of a reddish biplane. The heavy damaged level was resting connected its broadside connected a steep embankment. The pilot, who was not identified Friday, died astatine the clang scene.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the crash.