KDVR – victims of a small plane crash near Bromfield were identified on Saturday by Bulder Province.
The accident occurred at approximately 10 am on Saturday, May 17, after Beechcraft Bonanza took off from Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport and tried to return immediately. The plane is no longer back, as it was disrupted across the 36th Highway and Midway Street from the airport in the Boulder County Open Space field.
On Thursday, the two men were identified on board when they were crashed as a 80 -year -old Knutson, and James Gillod, 74.
When influencing, the plane exploded to fire. Fire North Metro rescue crews responded to the scene where the plane was burning and managed to extinguish the fire quickly.
On Saturday, Mark Dogerti, Vice President of North Metro Fire Rescue, said on Saturday that the accident was a “tragic accident.”
Fox31 Aaron Alcot model took these photos after a small plane crash near Bromfield on Saturday, May 17 (Aaron Alcot courtyard) 
The crews are on the site of a fatal plane crash near Bromfield on May 17, 2025. The crews are on the site of a fatal plane crash near Bromfield on May 17, 2025. The crews are on the site of a fatal plane crash near Bromfield on May 17, 2025. 
The crews are on the site of a fatal plane crash near Bromfield on May 17, 2025.
The airport said that the pilot called for air traffic control and reported a problem opening the door.
“We will have to return and return the lands. The door has appeared open,” one of the passengers of the plane can be heard, saying the air traffic control recordings.
The control units in the air can then be heard in giving instructions that were available to the corridors and where the plane should go to land safely at the airport again. After about 90 seconds, control units repeated information, hoping that the pilot would hear it.
Within a two -minute request to return land at Rockain Metropolitan Airport, an air traffic controller can be heard while issuing the official announcement.
“Tower, that Bonanza has just decreased to the north of 36”, someone can hear heard.
Airline expert told Step’s Belt’s Fox31 that what he played in ATC’s recording was the correct response from both the pilot and the tower.
“They know that you are in a critical situation and an emergency situation, and it will give you every opportunity to return to the airport safely,” Cuylon said, noting that flying with an open door will be dispersed. “The pilot must really focus on moving in that plane where it needs to return this plane to the ground safely.”
However, he said that this is not what shot down the plane.
“It is a noisy in this cockpit, it is annoying, perhaps what you usually assaulted, but it is not something that would drop a plane.”
Cowell also told BELT that opening the door is not a Beechcraft aircraft problem, and that the federal aviation administration will notify the pilots of any patterns.
The National Transport Safety Council, Federal Aviation Administration, Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport, Bromfield Police Department and Bulder Sharif County Office are investigated in the accident.