Little to probe in Utah crash that killed 10

SALT LAKE CITY -- Investigators had little more than ash and blackened shards of metal to sift through Sunday as they tried to figure out what caused a twin-engine plane to crash shortly after taking off, killing all 10 people on board.

"The aircraft was pretty much consumed by fire," said Keith Holloway, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board.

An NTSB crew planned to move what was left of the wreckage to a place where it could be laid out for examination.

A preliminary crash report could be finished late this week or early next, Holloway said Sunday, two days after nine members of a dermatology clinic and the pilot died in eastern Utah.

Moab was one of nine regular stops for the team from Southwest Skin and Cancer/Red Canyon Aesthetics & Medical Spa in Cedar City, a rapidly growing city of 28,000 in southwestern Utah. The company had satellite offices in Utah, northern Arizona and Nevada, providing skin treatment in small, remote communities.