Officials confirmed the identity of two men found in a plane crash near Aspen
The remains of Ruben Cohen and David Zara were found near Midway Pass about 9 miles east of Aspen near the Continental Divide
The pair had taken off in a Beechcraft B36 from Aspen Pitkin County Airport at around 4:30pm on Saturday afternoon, and were bound for Des Moines, Iowa
But at 10:30 on Sunday morning, a concerned friend called authorities to tell them that the single-engine aircraft had not arrived
Zara, 58, was a professional pilot who had previously founded charter plane companies Zen Air and Tradewind Aviation