The State - News from March 18, 1986

Searchers recovered three bodies from the scattered wreckage of a private single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza that crashed in the Sierra Nevada in a snowstorm while on the way from Seattle to Oxnard. The victims were not immediately named by authorities, but the Seattle Times identified them as pilot Frank Aurich, 58, president of Aurich Inc., a manufacturing representative firm in Seattle; Aurich’s wife, Barbara, 58, and her son by a previous marriage, Eric Stiansen, in his 20s. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane as it was flying in snow showers at 17,000 feet Saturday afternoon. The craft was found in Luther Pass, 20 miles south of South Lake Tahoe.