by Bernie Ziegner (Author)

An air shipment of illicit drugs from Seattle with a street value of almost 10mil is lost in an early spring snowstorm over the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and Montana. The aircraft's emergency beacon was presumed to be damaged, and thus the plane not readily locatable. A flight plan had not been posted with the FAA, but the crew had inquired of weather in route to Missoula. Though the planned route was not known, certain routes could be presumed in traveling from Seattle to Missoula. In the likely scenario where the maximum loaded single engine freight hauler, Cessna 210, encountered severe wing icing, it could have been brought down rather rapidly in the storm. Whether the plane crashed into a peak or whether the pilot had chosen to fly over a lower elevation pass is a matter of speculation.

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