"The plane was
completely torn apart and completely destroyed. I cannot believe he
survived the crash, then survived the night up there."
Source: Civil Air Patrol volunteer
and Montrose County (CO) coroner Mark Young, describing his
reaction after seeing the C172 which crashed at over 10,000 feet in
the mountains of Colorado, and whose pilot survived, uninjured, 24
hours in freezing temperatures by digging a snow cave.