Robert Fredrick Ayers, 69, disappeared after his single-engine Piper PA28 Cherokee crashed on Mount Shasta on June 18, 2005. He was flying from San Diego to his home in Washington when the aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter signal was picked up and ultimately traced to the east face of Mount Shasta; the strongest transmission was initially near McCloud and west of Mount Eddy. Ayers is described as a White male, 6 feet 4 inches tall, about 200 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Searchers located the wreckage on June 20, 2005, on the lower Konwakiton Glacier at about 11,400 feet, but hazardous avalanche conditions prevented access to the site. Reports say the wreckage has since slid roughly 1,000 feet and now rests below the Konwakiton Glacier. Ayers’ body was never recovered and the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department continues to list the case as unsolved.

If anyone has information about Ayers, his flight, or observations on Mount Shasta around June 2005, please share what is known.