One person died in a single-plane crash near the Ferndale Airfield in Bigfork Sept. 19, the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Monday. The person has yet to be identified by the coroner’s office, Undersheriff Robert Foster said.

Flathead Emergency Communications Center Director Austin Hicks said the initial call came in at 11:55 a.m. The Ferndale Volunteer Fire Department, Bigfork Fire Department, Glacier Park International Airport Fire Department, the sheriff’s office, Somers-Lakeside Fire Deparmtent and Evergreen Fire Rescue responded to the incident.

The National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) posted on X that it was investigating the “Sept. 19 crash of an Experimental, amateur-built Murphy Moose aircraft near Bigfork, Montana” on Friday. A Murphy Moose aircraft, accor

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