Print Page | Close Window

Well, they found him and the plane...

Printed From: Unofficial Allis
Category: Other Topics
Forum Name: Shops, Barns, Varmints, and Trucks
Forum Description: anything you want to talk about except politics
URL: https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=152160
Printed Date: 22 Aug 2025 at 1:46am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com


Topic: Well, they found him and the plane...
Posted By: JohnCO
Subject: Well, they found him and the plane...
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 10:53pm

Hikers discover wreckage in fatal crash of plane that departed Erie in April

Pilot's body ID'd as Quentin Aschoff, 67, of Bend, Ore.

By Mitchell Byars

Staff Writer

Posted:   07/16/2018 05:42:26 PM MDT | Updated:   about 4 hours ago

http://www.dailycamera.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelationshipId=8389722" rel="nofollow">The entrance to Erie Municipal Airport.
The entrance to Erie Municipal Airport. (Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)

Hikers in Park County last week discovered the wreckage of an aircraft that http://www.dailycamera.com/erie-news/ci_31777867/erie-airplane-missing" rel="nofollow - vanished last April after departing Erie for a destination in Utah , officials said.

The body of the plane's pilot, Quentin Aschoff, 67, of Bend, Ore., was found inside the crashed Cessna 210 on Mosquito Pass, according to Park County Undersheriff Dave Wohlers.

Officials with the Park County Coroner's Office said Monday that they were able to use fingerprints to positively identify Aschoff's body.

Aschoff took off from Erie Municipal Airport at 8 a.m. April 2 and was scheduled to arrive in Richfield, Utah, around 11:30 a.m. Richfield is about 225 miles west of Grand Junction.

Officials said Aschoff was planning to follow Interstate 70, but, according to radar, diverted east after reaching the Loveland Pass and began following U.S. 285. The last radar contact with the plane was near Grant, Colo., and cell phone signals ceased about 30 minutes after that.

The plane did not have an operating transponder and Aschoff did not file a flight plan.

Mosquito Pass is about 30 miles southwest of Grant between Leadville and Fairplay in Park County.

Civil Air Patrol aircrews flew 24 searches with 10 aircraft, covering a search area from the last radar contact to the Utah border, with the search concentrated around the ridges north and northwest of South Park, the routes between Kenosha Pass, and I-70 at Silverton and Copper Mountain.

Advertisement

The search was http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31804035/" rel="nofollow - called off after two weeks .

Wohlers said the Federal Aviation Administration will determine the cause of the crash, and that investigators were being taken to the crash site on Monday.

Mitchell Byars: 303-473-1329, mailto:byarsm@dailycamera.com" rel="nofollow - byarsm@dailycamera.com or http://twitter.com/mitchellbyars" rel="nofollow - twitter.com/mitchellbyars



-------------
"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
Allis Express participant



Replies:
Posted By: johnkc
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 11:14pm
Rest In Peace

-------------
I support the development of hybrid automobiles and alternative fuels as I need DIESEL fuel for my ALLIS CHALMERS!


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2018 at 11:30pm
I see they found a crashed plane that disappeared 21 years ago in some national forest in I think MI. and ya'll don't understand wht this little sweet guy don't wanna fly? my chances is a bit better ina steel vehicle at 55-60 MPH than ina pepsi can at 100 plus MPH at a sudden stop!


Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 6:30am
Well, we knew what the outcome was to be, but at least they can bring him home to family
hopefully that will give them some peace and closure. Prayers for all involved.


-------------
Allis Express North Georgia
41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's,
Ford 345C TLB


Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 7:25am
Glad they found the plane and pilot. Will give family and friends some closure.
Dale , the dangerous part of flying is driving to the airport.

-------------
You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails

1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF.


Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 7:56am
Well that put some closure to where he went to... and now he can be laid to rest. Family can get some peace now too.


-------------
He who says there is no evil has already deceived himself
The truth is the truth, sugar coated or not. Trawler II says, "Remember that."


Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 7:58am
Originally posted by shameless dude shameless dude wrote:

I see they found a crashed plane that disappeared 21 years ago in some national forest in I think MI. and ya'll don't understand wht this little sweet guy don't wanna fly? my chances is a bit better ina steel vehicle at 55-60 MPH than ina pepsi can at 100 plus MPH at a sudden stop!
 
It's all the other idiots so close by, going much faster, reading facebook that's the problem.  I'd fly to work if I could!


Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 8:16am
Glad he was found so his family can get some peace and closure. Now the FAA and NTSB can do their thing and try to determine what happened.

-------------
Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.


Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 8:21am
Shameless, I will take flying over driving any day. Getting to and through the airport is the worse part. And I much prefer flying military rather than going commercial.

-------------
Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God.


Posted By: Les Royer
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 8:30am
Guess I hadn't seen this in the news.  I thought maybe they found D.B.Cooper


-------------
I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.


Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 9:08am
Back when I was about 14 there were 2 things I wanted, to learn how to fly, and an A.C.  G.
Maybe 30 years ago I started taking flying lessons. Got in 3 hours and decided that I my money would be better spent on a motor home.
In the late '90's I bought a G.
We are our 4th motor home.

Dusty


-------------
917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express"


Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 2:29pm
Yes prayers to the friends and family 



Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:00pm
the dude that crashed his plane onto bunch of Woodhouse dealers pickups on their lot, was still in the plane, but they never found one of his eyes.


Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 11:30pm
Dale, when did that happen?



-------------
"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
Allis Express participant


Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 8:14am
My dad always had a desire to fly,  I carried on that tradition.  Dad died in 1970 at age 64 and I learned to fly in the mid 80s.   I only flew for about 4 years,  then got right out of it.  A very expensive hobby.   I was always sad that dad didn`t live long enough to fly with me.  

-------------
Real heros wear dogtags, not capes.


Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 3:11pm
weiner, sounds like you missed your big chance.  Maybe cus I m old as dirt now.

Way back in '69, my uncle gave me a big twin engine tandem rotor helicopter and unlimited fuel.  i spent 365 days on that fabulous vacation to sunny south east Asia.  Wink

Just could not get enough eh? Confused


Posted By: Rayhowling
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 11:09pm
Last Sunday I was at my Cousins 80 birthday party in his speech he talked about his flying experiences. He started soon after finishing high school he started to fly airplanes and doing crop dusting and spraying corn and other crops in Ontario. He flue his airplane to southern US states and done spraying there. He also sprayed in some countries south of Mexico. He sprayed our corn with Atrazine and he used to fly underneath the hydro wires. The first time I flue with him he done some nose divers and then back up steep  and I got sick and said I going to bring up, he said not in the plane so I opened my coat pocket and did what I had to do. Ha Ha. He crashed at least 3 airplanes totaled them and walked away from each one, when he knew he was going to crash he would swing the plane so one wing would hit the ground and the plane roll and brake the wings off. After several years of flying he spent most of his working days spraying lawns and had a fleet of trucks spraying. 


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 11:48pm
we had a crop duster here that I watched fly up between 2 bridges here. now I don't know how far apart these bridges are, but they are pretty close! ya'll can look them up on google earth to see them. came from underneath and up between them and made it. he had been planning this for along time and the rail road flat told him they would press charges on him if he attempted it! he did it ona sunday so the rail road cops wouldn't be there to watch! he was one crazy sucker in and out of the air! but we all loved him! John...that was a couple years ago on that crash. I remember we had just arrived at wally world at dusk, and there were several sheriff's cars in front of the store, they was all inside wally world buying camera film, then they went on up to truck mountain and mostly stayed the whole night. the plane hit sum big power lines and went spinning down onto numerous new pickups, 2 were crushed pretty bad, others had damage from pieces parts slamming on them from the plane. he stayed inside mostly. but they never found one of his eye balls! wonder if someone found it when they bought a new truck?


Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 5:36am
Shameless, is that the two bridges over the Missouri, just east of Blair....? Darrel


Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 8:25pm
He was probably keeping an eye out for them power lines,


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 8:59pm
Darrel...yes...thems the 2 bridges


Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 10:58pm
That's a yucker  Walker!!


Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2018 at 1:35am
A bit grotesque maybe and I can assure you I did hesitate, then I went and hit the send button but I didn't enjoy it.


Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2018 at 2:52am
I thoughts it was funny! it's not as bad as what a lot of folks said!



Print Page | Close Window

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Copyright ©2001-2017 Web Wiz Ltd. - https://www.webwiz.net