4 bodies found in wreckage of plane missing since Sunday in northwestern Montana

4 bodies found in wreckage of plane in Montana

MOISES, Mont. — Four bodies have been found in the wreckage of a plane in northwestern Montana, three days after it went missing on an afternoon sightseeing tour.

Sanders County Undersheriff Rube Wrightsman rappelled from an Air Force helicopter to the crash site on a rugged, remote hillside Wednesday afternoon. He says he found the bodies of two Missoula men and two newspaper reporters from Kalispell inside the plane.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft discovered the crash earlier in the afternoon a couple of miles east of the Flathead River near the National Bison Range, some 80 miles south of Kalispell.