SANTA FE, N.M. — The car wreck on Nov. 11 was as gruesome as any New Mexico had ever seen.
The authorities said Dana Papst’s pickup truck, driving on the wrong side of a highway just north of Santa Fe, plowed headlong into a minivan. The crash killed five of six members of the Gonzales family, who were returning home from a soccer tournament. It also killed Mr. Papst, 44.
Mr. Papst was drunk, the authorities said, when he boarded a US Airways flight from Phoenix to Albuquerque, and he continued to drink whiskey on the plane. He was heading home from the airport when the crash occurred....
