The Bachelor News Updates: Former Contestant, Erin Storm, Dies At 41

By Jenn Loro - 25 Mar '16 21:25PM

One of 'The Bachelor's' contestants who was remembered for her attempt to win Matt Grant's affection, Erin Storm, reportedly died in a private plane crash in Los Angeles.

According to a report by ABC 7 Chicago, Storm was piloting an ultralight glider-like three-wheeled aircraft known as Airborne XT-912 equipped with a rear engine before it dived on 120th St. near Hawthorne Municipal airport around noon last Monday.

An employee working at nearby Best Drilling and Pump, Inc. witnessed how the plane erratically flew before finally crashing into the ground.

"All of a sudden, my partner started yelling, 'Watch out, there's a plane coming! And it looked like the plane veered up, lost control and hit a couple feet away from the truck, a couple feet away from us," Byron Mayes explained as quoted by Entertainment Online.

Following her untimely death on Monday, Storm's friends have started paying tribute to her passing starting Tuesday on social media.

"It is with the heaviest heart I've ever had to be posting this. My sweet Erin Storm You have changed my life in many ways and showed me what TRUE BEST FRIENDS are all about!!! Heaven just received the most incredible angel in the world. ... I am filled with such sadness to lose one of the most incredible friends I've EVER had in my life...I will NEVER get over the loss of you," reads a Facebook tribute by one of Storm's friends, Christina Marie as quoted in a report by People.

Erin Storm appeared in the reality dating show The Bachelor for several episodes until she was ditched in the third week of the Matt Grant season in 2008.

According to Cinema Blend, the 'hot dog stand' vendor as she came to be known in the show received her pilot's license and had been flying solo since November 2015 as confirmed by Pacific Blue Air on their Facebook page.