Abandoned Crash Sites.

[n2ize]

Interesting page with photos of abandoned air crash sites. Most of the crash sites depicted on this site occurred in the high deserts of California. Many of them have been there since the early 1940's. Those who explore these sites encourage visitors to not take "souveniers" from the sites. Many of these sites are sovereign ground where men who served their country have died. Explorers are encouraged to leave the sites undisturbed out of respect for the men who served.

In any even it is quite interesting...

http://www.ghosttownexplorers.org/aircraft/aircraft.htm#harvard

[KC2UGV]

Kind of like Desert Urbex :)

[K7SGJ]

Thanks for the link. It is very interesting, indeed.

[suddenseer]

Cool.:agree:

[W3WN]

Cool

[W7UUU]

That's really interesting stuff...

Dave
W7UUU

[N2NH]

Interesting. Some of the accidents that happened during wartime were not reported at the time.

[n2ize]

Interesting. Some of the accidents that happened during wartime were not reported at the time.

Where does it say there weren't reported ? Some of them were not found untill years later thus the actual locations and full investigations were not reported. But is seems that in all cases they were reported missing and it was known they went down.

[WX7P]

Great stuff.

Now I won't hear from Sarah for awhile. She's really into plane crash sites.

[N2NH]

Where does it say there weren't reported ? Some of them were not found untill years later thus the actual locations and full investigations were not reported. But is seems that in all cases they were reported missing and it was known they went down.

I didn't mean that necessarily happened in this case, but it was a fact that there was an Office of Censorship during WW II and WW I.

Office of Censorship. (http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/6d/1e/6d1e2b88cfa9c4c1e91d9e9c68167e56.jpg)

[al2n]

Here is another site that has a number of crash sites from Canada and Alaska.

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm

[WX7P]

Here is another site that has a number of crash sites from Canada and Alaska.

http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm

That's a cool one too, Mike.

[kf0rt]

Here's another one you might find interesting: http://coloradowreckchasing.com/

This is the site of a local wreckchaser. Used to follow this guy's stuff a lot more when I was into hiking; he'd been known to locate obscure wrecks and offer to take surviving family members to the site if they were interested and "up to the trek." Mostly military stuff in the Colorado mountains.

I only ever attempted to locate one crash site. Located it, according to GPS and the coordinates given in the NTSB report (back in the Selective Availability days of GPS, so GPS was only accurate to 50 yards or so on a good day). Kind of a bizarre story. A friend of a friend died in the crash - a charter flight from Montrose, CO to Page, AZ carrying about a half dozen BLM employees (no survivors). Pretty sure we found the site, but no indications of a crash and no debris. It was fairly close to a dirt road and some seasonal hunting camps, so it's likely that the site was cleaned up as a part of the investigation -- would have been pretty easy to haul it all away.

[K7SGJ]

I had two uncles that were killed in the late 50s, when a military jet flew into the cockpit of the airliner they were on. My third uncle missed the flight by 10 minutes, or he would have been on it as well. They were all coming out for my Moms birthday to surprise her. I guess, sadly, she was surprised. It seems to me that the wreckage ended up in the Grand Canyon, or some other place where it was not possible to remove the debris, and getting the victims out was a very difficult task. It is really amazing how far air safety has progressed over the years, what with the advances in ATC, on board avoidance systems, computers, and all the other stuff that wasn't around in those days.