Major Drought Changes Lake Powell Dramatically
A small plane crashed on a lake straddling the Arizona-Utah border killing two people, injuring five, and carrying six French tourists and a pilot, officials said.
According to a Kane County Sheriff's official in Utah, a witness said the plane flew out of Page and crashed into Lake Powell near Canyon shortly before 5:30 p.m. reported seeing it. Saturday.
Federal Aviation Administration officials said in a statement that the pilot of a single-engine Cessna 207 reported an engine problem before the plane crashed.
The plane was in 120 feet of water, and Kane County officials said he killed two people in the submerged plane.
Utah Department of Public Safety divers attempted to retrieve the body, sheriffs said. The names of casualties have not yet been released.
Authorities say the pilot and witnesses were able to pull his four passengers out of the water and into the boat after the crash.
Three passengers with serious injuries were airlifted to St. George Regional Hospital, and two of him with minor injuries were taken by boat to Antelope His Marina before being taken to Page Hospital.
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the crash.
The water level in Lake Powell, his second-largest man-made reservoir in the United States, is at an all-time low and dangerously close to a "deadpool condition,"the United Nations said. The month previously mentioned. The lake was last filled in 1999, but the water level is tens of feet lower than it was last year. I'm here.
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