March 17, 1994: CAP Discovers Wreckage of Plane Flown by Impaired Pilot

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On this date in 1994, the CAP discovered the wreckage of a Beech 95-B55B in Colorado, which crashed March 15, 1994 while an inebriated pilot was at the controls.  The pilot died in the crash.

An excerpt from the NTSB:

The wreckage was located by the Civil Air Patrol on March 17. It was embedded in a rock wall at the 10,550 foot level of Haystack Mountain, at Battlement Mesa, about 12 miles southwest of the Rifle Airport. The wreckage was aligned on a magnetic heading of 210 degrees. Accordion-type crush damaged extended from the nose section to the cockpit area. Both wings bore similar damage from the leading to the trailing edges. Both engines were fragmented.

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