Woman Pays Back for Rescue by Building Aspen Mountain Rescue Team a New Headquarters
By Rocky Thompson on December 14th, 2011
Thirty-four years after the Aspen Mountain Rescue saved her, a pilot and five others from a crash site where her father died, an Oklahoma businesswoman gave the group a check to build a new headquarters and training facility on Main Street. Though the sum was not disclosed, it’s rumored to be over $1 million. The plane crashed after running into a squall and losing part of its landing gear on takeoff. The pilot lost his way and crashed in the Bush Creek drainage near Snowmass Village. Two days later the Aspen Mountain Rescue found the wreckage and the six survivors. The woman who was then 15 years old still has a home in the Aspen area.
