A small plane crashed early on Friday into remote mountain terrain near the popular ski resort of Steamboat Springs, Colo., killing all four people aboard, the authorities said.
The plane, an Epic E1000, a six-seat turboprop, crashed at about 12:20 a.m. “under unknown circumstances,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The Routt County sheriff, Doug Scherar, said the plane crashed in “a very remote area” of Emerald Mountain.
Routt County search-and-rescue officials were called at 12:40 a.m. and were en route to the site at 1 a.m. with a team of eight people who traveled on foot and on snowmobiles and tracked vehicles, Sheriff Scherar said in a statement.
The search-and-rescue team helped bring Routt County sheriff’s officers, Steamboat Springs police officers and the Routt County coroner to the crash site, where they recovered all four bodies, Sheriff Scherar said.
Mitch Locke, the Routt County coroner, said on Friday that he was not ready to release the names of the victims, but he believed at least three of them were members of the same family.
The plane was registered to ALS Aviation, a limited liability company in Franklin, Tenn., according to Tennessee business records, which did not list any names associated with the company. The records said the company had been dissolved.
Data from DS-B Exchange, a flight-tracking site, indicated that the plane took off from John C. Tune Airport in Nashville, Tenn., stopped at Kansas City Downtown Airport in Kansas City, Mo., and crashed several miles from Steamboat Springs Airport.
The N.T.S.B. said that once its investigator reaches the crash site, the investigator would begin the process of documenting the scene and examining the plane before it is moved to another location for further evaluation.
The board said its investigation would focus on three main areas: the pilot, the aircraft and the operating environment. F.A.A. records indicated that the plane was manufactured in 2024.
Michael Levenson covers breaking news for The Times from New York.
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