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Mike Loening was the son of aircraft designer Grover (Loening amphibians) and a well known Mustang owner and air race pilot in the late 60s and early 70s.
Back in the mid-70s, I recall a nice Flying magazine article about him and his FBO in Boise. The next thing I hear he was dead following a plane carsh in Idaho or Nevada.

Can anyone provide details or at least a date (so I can check the NTSB database) of his crash?

Thanks

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As I recall he was flying his Cessna 210 with his son and girlfriend (?). They crashed in the mountains somewhere between Colorado and Boise, ID. I seem to remember something about them surviving the initial crash, but when rescuers finally located them they had all died from exposure.

Not 100% on that, though.

January or February 1977.

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Mike was a good guy. I think that this is it: http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=56445&key=0

I read it was exposure as well, (In Howie Keefe's book).