A small plane made a “forced landing” Monday afternoon near Woody Creek outside of Aspen and the two people on board are OK, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office.
A Cirrus aircraft was heading back to Eagle County when it went down, but no one was injured, Pitkin County Sheriff’s Deputy Alex Bruchetta said.
According to tweets from the Aspen airport, the “small GA aircraft made an emergency landing and parachute was deployed.” It went down about 4.5 miles north of the airport, they said.
Bruchetta said a group from Mountain Rescue Aspen is headed to the site, which is in a remote area above Woody Creek. He said neither person is from the Roaring Fork Valley area.
Bruchetta said the Sheriff’s Office was notified of the crash at 3:30 p.m. More information is expected to be release later, he said.
This is a developing story that will be update.