{"id":469411,"date":"2026-02-15T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469411\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T03:47:07","slug":"tennessee-businessmen-among-4-killed-in-colorado-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/469411\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee businessmen among 4 killed in Colorado plane crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Tennessee businessmen were among the four people killed when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2026\/02\/13\/fatal-plane-crash-steamboat-springs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plane crashed in the Colorado mountains near Steamboat Springs<\/a> on Friday, according to the Routt County coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/everloved.com\/life-of\/aaron-plane-crash-obituary\/obituary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aaron Stokes<\/a>, 47; Jakson Stokes, 21; Colin Stokes, 21; and Austin Huskey, 37, were identified as the four people who died when a turboprop plane headed to Bob Adams Airport crashed on Emerald Mountain just outside of Steamboat Springs, the coroner\u2019s office said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened early Friday under \u201cunknown circumstances,\u201d the National Transportation Safety Board said.<\/p>\n<p>According to an obituary posted online, <a href=\"https:\/\/shopfixacademy.com\/meet-the-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aaron Stokes founded Shop Fix Academy<\/a> in Franklin, Tenn., and the organization helps small auto shops through professional development and coaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAaron was passionate about transforming the automotive sector, guiding shop owners to focus on strategic business development rather than just day-to-day operations,\u201d his obituary states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUvq9BEje8X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Austin Huskey<\/a> was the chief executive of Huskey Building Supply, also in Franklin, the company said in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of the third-generation ownership of Huskey Building Supply, Austin Huskey continued his family\u2019s legacy through generosity and ingenuity,\u201d company officials wrote. \u201cHis faithful work saw Huskey continue to thrive in the midst of nationwide economic uncertainty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both men were husbands and fathers, according to the statements.<\/p>\n<p>Jakson Stokes was Aaron Stokes\u2019 son, and Colin Stokes was his nephew, according to reporting from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.williamsonherald.com\/news\/local_news\/plane-crash-kills-two-franklin-businessmen-two-21-year-olds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Williamson Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NTSB officials are investigating the crash, and a preliminary report will be released within 30 days, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Tennessee businessmen were among the four people killed when a plane crashed in the Colorado mountains near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3832,9045,2558,34650,33717,3,33715,162769,218063,2219,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-469411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-news","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-mountains","13":"tag-national-transportation-safety-board","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-plane-crashes","16":"tag-routt-county","17":"tag-steamboat-springs","18":"tag-tennessee","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}