Courtesy of Gerald JerantA Mesa pilot and his son died Saturday when their plane crashed about half a mile away from an airfield in southern Colorado.
Jeff Morhet, 43, and his son Jackson, 9, were stopping at the airfield to refuel the two-seat Nanchang CT-68, according to the Huefano County Sheriff's Office.
Something went wrong when Morhet made his approach to land and they crashed about half a mile from the runway at Spanish Peaks Airfield on the north side of Walsenburg, CO, a spokesman said.
The Morhets were traveling to an air show in Wisconsin with three other planes, authorities said.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash.
No other information is available at this time.
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