I remember my uncle walking in and mentioning the "crash in the mountains", and being only 9 years old it frightened me. Then, only weeks later, I saw a Spencer Tracy movie on the late show called "The Mountain" where he and Robert Wagner make a perilous journey up a mountain to pilfer a commercial airliner that has crashed up there. It really set my imagination amok. Then, in 1972, a horrible little band called Bloodrock released a song called "DOA", about a plane that "hit something in the air". All my friends claimed it was about the Wichita State crash. I never stopped thinking about wrecks in the mountains and 30 years later I found myself scouring the area around Loveland Pass, Colorado, and I found the crash site. Alone among the wreckage, I felt absolutely haunted.

--Timothy Fouke