The Frederick man and an unidentified person who died in a New Mexico plane crash last month flew into the Sierra Grande, according to a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report.

Doug Hoverter and an unidentified person departed from Pueblo Memorial Airport headed for Uvalde, Texas, at 10:10 p.m., Aug. 13, before the plane crashed around 11 p.m. that night, according to online flight tracking service FlightAware. The plane flew into “wooded terrain” on the north side of Sierra Grande, an extinct stratovolcano near Des Moines, New Mexico. The plane was destroyed, according to the NTSB report.

The plane initially crashed into a 20-foot tree before catching fire and breaking into pieces that spread as far apart as 300 feet. All major parts of the plane were found at the sit

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