Costas John Sivyllis and Lindsey Vogelaar had eloped to Colorado for a mountaintop wedding and were flying home to Florida when their private plane crashed just 15 minutes after takeoff

An airline pilot and his new wife have died in a private plane crash just four days after they got married.

Costas John Sivyllis and Lindsey Vogelaar, from Port Orange, Florida, were travelling back from their Colorado mountain-top wedding when tragedy struck.

Their bodies were recovered from Ingram Basin in the San Juan Mountains on Monday, with their single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza plane having come down 15 minutes after takeoff earlier that day.

United Airlines pilot Mr Sivyllis, 30, and Ms Vogelaar, 33, had been posting regular updates about their elopement online for friends and family, including showing off the plane they eventually crashed in.