Two men find wreckage of missing plane while four-wheeling

Two men who were four-wheeling just outside of Leadville Friday helped solve a three-month-long mystery and bring closure to an Oregon pilot’s family and the first responders who have been looking for him since April.

Pat Wester and his son-in-law Jon Cook were on a day trip on Mosquito Pass when something caught their eyes.

What they saw was the wreckage of a Cessna 210 single-engine plane that went off the radar on April. It was traveling between the Erie Municipal Airport and Richfield, Utah.

The lone pilot, 67-year-old Quentin Aschoff of Bend, Oregon, did not have a flight plan, and the plane did not have an operating transponder.

Search and rescue crews looked for him for nearly two weeks to no avail. During the initial search, 10 aircraft scoured 120 square miles of land trying to find the missing pilot and his plane.

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