[old curmudgeon]

I don’t remember any other crash at the time.

But that coutry is really rugged. The mountains are not as high as the Rockies but they have their own hazards.

There is a lot of aluminum decorating those mountains, left there by those who “thought they could make it.”

[bootless]

Hi, I read it here:

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Audie-Murphy-N601JJ.htm

“It was the second crash in the Brush Mountain area within 14 hours. The night prior, a single-engine Cessna 177 carrying four persons, including a noted Roanoke veterinarian and his wife, went down killing all aboard. However, that mishap occurred due to severe pilot inexperience and alcoholic impairment, not the weather.”

I haven’t researched that further ... obviously, the drinking while flying was the cause...

[bootless]

PS - yes, I understand about the terrain there... not a place for the overoptimistic and underskilled.