Darrell Ward was a truck driver featured on the reality TV show "Ice Road Truckers" from season six in 2012 until his death. He was from Deer Lodge, Montana, and died in a plane crash on August 28, 2016, while travelling in a single-engined Cessna 182 Skylane with pilot Mark Melotz. They were attempting to land at a nearby airstrip in Rock Creek, Montana, and the plane had departed 53 minutes earlier from Missoula for Rock Creek. Ward was piloting the plane when it crashed and caught fire. He was 52 years old at the time of his death. Wards death was a shock to his fans and colleagues, and the History Channel, which aired "Ice Road Truckers," published a lengthy statement on a Facebook page memorializing the fallen trucker.