On January 18, 2016, at about 10:00 A.M., Deputies with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of a plane crash in Cedar Fort in Utah County that took the lives of the pilot and owner of the airplane, Donald L. Baker, age 59, and his wife, Dawn Elizabeth Hunter, age 55, both of Tucson.
The aircraft was a 1999 Cessna Citation 525. Baker had filed a flight plan leaving from Salt Lake City flying to Tucson, Arizona. It appears he encountered some kind of mechanical problems and may have been attempting to return to Salt Lake City.
Witnesses reported hearing a loud boom and seeing an airplane, on fire and coming apart, falling to the ground. Investigators found the area of the crash with a very broad debris field. The debris is spread over an area approximately 2 miles long and 1/4 mile wide.