A deadly 2023 Utah plane crash was likely caused by the pilot, a North Dakota lawmaker, becoming disoriented while taking off at night without runway lights, federal aviation investigators said. The National Transportation Safety Board said in its final report that Larsen lost his visual reference to the horizon and flew into rocky terrain.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Saturday that the plane was a Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed near Pitt-Greenville Airport in North Carolina around 7:50 a.m.