(Woodbury County, IA) – Sheriff’s officials in northwest Iowa’s Woodbury County, Sunday afternoon, confirmed they had received a report a small, single-occupant private aircraft crashed Saturday evening in a rural part of the County, near the City of Lawton.
Officials began their search for the plane after receiving word at around 5 p.m. Saturday that the aircraft was overdue to arrive at its destination in Colorado. The pilot of the Zenith CH-64 died from his injuries in the crash. Authorities identified him as 64-year-old Dennis Elkins of Erie, Colorado. Elkins was flying home in the plane he built, after leaving an airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Emergency crews from multiple agencies initiated a search for the aircraft using available information.
The crash remained under investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), along with local authorities.
