WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. — Search teams located the site of an airplane crash that killed three people near Yellowstone National Park using the last known location of the smart watch from one of the victims, authorities said Monday.

The dense timberlands in a small town near West Yellowstone, Montana, concealed the wreckage of a small plane until an unlikely beacon — a victim’s smartwatch — helped search-and-rescue crews locate the crash site,

A Lehi family is mourning the loss of a beloved husband and father after he died in a tragic plane crash near the West Yellowstone Airport.

The pilot and only occupant of a kit-built airplane was killed in a crash on the Pawnee National Grassland on Colorado’s Eastern Plains last week, federal officials said Friday.