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3 killed in Montana small plane crash

Plane crash Powell County October 2025
3 people dead after small plane crashes in Montana
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GREAT FALLS — The Powell County Sheriff's Office reports three people died when a small plane crashed in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on Friday.

The agency said in a news release that it received a report of a possible downed aircraft at about 4:30 p.m.

The last known location was in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in northern Powell County.

Air resources were deployed from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls and continued to search until around midnight.

At about 9 a.m. on Saturday, an Air Force helicopter found the wreckage of the aircraft in a remote, wooded area in Youngs Creek in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, northeast of Seeley Lake.

Members of the Powell County Coroners Office, Missoula County Search and Rescue, and the Montana DNRC arrived at the scene at about 4 p.m.

The pilot and two other occupants were found dead at the scene. Montana authorities have not yet released their names.

WAFF 48 in Huntsville, Alabama, reports that the three were a man and two of his daughters, all from Alabama.

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Powell County Sheriff Gavin Roselles has turned the investigation over to the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board, which will lead efforts to determine the cause of the crash.

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