Pilot identified in plane crash near Lake Tahoe

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office has identified the body of a man found Tursday near the site of a plane crash southwest of Lake Tahoe as Tyrell Kremer of Wilton, Calif.

Kremer, 52, was flying from Idaho to Jackson on Saturday, October 15 after what friends say was a weeklong hunting trip. Family and friends grew concerned Saturday afternoon when he hadn't returned as expected and official news of a missing aircraft were issued Saturday evening.

Searches of the Sierra Nevada were hampered due to bad weather through Monday, with both air and ground search teams unable to get into the area where the last contact with Kremer's Cessna was made.

The missing aircraft and its pilot were located Tuesday at 4:15 p.m. in a rugged area of the Sierra Nevada near Lake Schmidell, southwest of Lake Tahoe.

Searchers found the wreckage as a result of a photograph taken by a Civil Air Patrol crew who was flying in the probable location of the missing aircraft. The coordinates from the photograph were passed along to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s ground team who hiked into the site and confirmed the crashed aircraft and Kremer's body outside of the plane.