An official with a Kansas concrete contractor has confirmed that the pilot killed in a central Nebraska plane crash was the owner of the company.
An official with a Kansas concrete contractor has confirmed that the pilot killed in a central Nebraska plane crash was the owner of the company.
Jerry Ernzen, vice president of operations at Bottorff Construction of Atchison, Kan., says 54-year-old Mark Bottorff, of Lancaster, Kan., died in the Friday crash that also killed three others.
Ernzen, speaking Saturday for Bottorff's family, said the three others on board were with agriculture equipment companies in Kansas and Nebraska who were doing business with Bottorff, which owned the plane.
Authorities lost contact with the plane about 10 minutes after it took off from North Platte on Friday afternoon.
Federal aviation investigators are heading to the crash site. Neither they nor local officials would confirm Bottorff's identity. Officials also are not yet releasing the names of the others killed.
