Former Philadelphia Phillies and UCLA pitcher Tyson Brummett was killed after the plane he was piloting crashed in the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah, on Friday morning, according to USA Today.
He was 35.
Brummett, according to the Utah County Sheriff, took off in a Cessna 172 from the South Valley Regional Airport in West Jordan, Utah, on Saturday morning. Witnesses, per the report, saw the plane start to turn and then spiral downward before crashing near Box Elder Peak in American Fork Canyon.
Brummett was one of four people killed in the crash, along with his friend Alex Reugner and Reugner’s aunt and uncle, Elaine and Douglas Blackhurst.