Second Frozen Airman's Body Found On Sierra Glacier
Ktvu ^ | August 21, 2007 | KTVU/AP
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:32:36 AM by RDTF
FRESNO -- Mountain backpackers have discovered remains believed to be those of a missing World War II airman resting atop a glacier near where an aviation cadet's body was found two years ago, authorities said Monday.
The second set of human remains was found in an alpine region of Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada range on Wednesday, as little as 50 feet from where climbers spotted the ice-entombed body of Leo Mustonen in October 2005, park officials said.
Indeed. It is crash sites like the one you mention, and ones in Nevada, that I used to illustrate to people just how difficult it is to spot crash sites in Nevada.
In the east Humboldt Mountains of Nevada, south of Wells (on I-80), there is a crash site of a B-17 that flew into the mountains in December, 1942.
We can all agree that a B-17 is a pretty big chunk of metal to turn into debris and “lose.”
Well, I’ve hunted mountain goats up in that range back in 1998. I’m here to tell people that I knew where the crash site was - the locals in Clover Valley told me *exactly* where it was. The way the mountain’s terrain has formed perfectly hides ALL of the crash debris in a “bowl” at about 7500’ up the side of the mountain. You can see nothing from below. You can see nothing from the side(s). You have to get up on top of the crash site and look down into the bowl, and at the right time of day, to see the wreckage from any distance away.
The USAAF and local ranchers were not able to pull those bodies out of the site until the following July/August.