MISSOULA — The Powell County Sheriff's Office says that three people died when a small plane crashed in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on Friday, October 17, 2025.

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

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 abou

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