Authorities used the smartwatch’s last location to search for the small plane, which had three on board when it crashed “in dense timber” near West Yellowstone.

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 Utah man has been identified as one of the three people killed in a plane crash south of West Yellowstone, Montana.Utah resident Kurt Enoch Robey, 55, and Tennessee residents Rodney Conover, 60, and Madison Conover,