Not every day you walk up on a plane crash ruins

[Sapcut]

Out in the middle of nowhere I walked up on a crashed plane. The name Calypso on the wing. Could it be the plane of John Denver or was that just his song. ?

 

[browning2480]

Looks like a tragic scene.

 

[Paradox]

Those are really huge leaves!

 

[Deldave]

Massive grasses too!

 

[Sapcut]

Those are really huge leaves!

You should see the trees.

 

[SWOHTR]

Was Bigfoot your tour guide?

 

[VernAK]

I have walked into the crash site of a B17 that went down after WWII on a test flight. It's on the West Fork of Charley River in the 40 Mile Country. "82 Days Below Zero" is a hell of a story about the lone survivor that bailed out and eventually walked out 82 days later. It's a good book to have in your pack on your next hunt. You will appreciate your gear and Mountain House after reading.

 

[FLATHEAD]

Native American Drone?

 

[Pony Soldier]

In 81, while investigating the Itallian Peaks wilderness near Dubois, Idaho we came upon a crashed six passenger plane. We found later that it had crashed the week before. Killing all aboard.

The ceiling had come down so low the were flying a sagebrush level when then encountered an outcrop in the middle of nowhere. They hit so hard that that the surface of the plane came apart like scales. It was a bit disturbing to observe.

 

[KNOPHISH]

Years ago deer hunting I came upon a stabilizer off maybe a Cessna wrapped in a cargo net. No other crashed plane pieces around so I figured they were recovering the wreckage and dropped this part from a helicopter. It was a heavily wooded area so they probably said bag it looking for it. I wrestled with that thing for awhile to get the net. Heh heh

 

[Mykolaivka887]

I fly over plane wrecks all the time and have walked up on quite a few while hunting and exploring in the bush. There's hundreds of them scattered across Alaska. Fly through Merrill Pass sometime and you'll see plenty of them smashed into the mountain slopes on each side of the pass.

 

[Customweld]

There’s one above McCall at Loon Lake. I think it’s a B23 Dragon. Pretty cool story with it too.

 

[hawkman71]

Canada's Air Force wants it's plane back.

 

[Blockcaver]

Not counting flying over a bunch of them in Alaska I came across a couple old crash sights on the ground.

The most impressive was where a fighter plane crashed near the top of a mountain (in the Mormon Mountains) in NV years earlier. Plane parts were strewn for what seemed like 1/2 a mile. When I saw the sole off of a shoe I quit looking any further. The crash caused a burn that made for good grass and the desert sheep I was hunting frequently hung out on the old burn.

 

[LittleZooski]

I was expecting a little more

 

[Glendon Mullins]

I'll see your plane crash and raise you a chopper lol