A small plane crashed in a remote area of Teller County Sunday, according to the sheriff’s office.
The crash happened in the area of Phantom Canyon Road, according to a statement the sheriff’s office published at 9 a.m. A search and rescue operation was underway Sunday, the sheriff’s office said.
It was not immediately clear how many people were onboard the plane or their conditions.
A spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office did not return a request for more information. The National Transportation Safety Board said it was investigating a crash of a Pool-Cessna T-41B2 near Victor.
Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.
Shelly Bradbury | Courts Reporter
Shelly Bradbury is the courts reporter at the Denver Post. She joined the paper in 2019 and previously worked as a crime reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in Pennsylvania and the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee. She’s been a reporter since 2012, focused on criminal justice. In Pittsburgh, she helped the newspaper earn the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news after a mass shooting at a local synagogue, and in 2020 she was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for an investigation into child sexual abuse among Amish and Mennonite communities.