This is a bizarre story. The area cited in another report - Red’s Meadow - is hugely popular with campers and hikers.
There would have been hundreds of people in this area on September 3, 2007 which was Labor Day. Also, although the terrain there is rugged, it is not heavily forested like some of the Sierra.
Hard to believe a plane could have gone down here on one of the summer’s busiest weekends and nobody noticed.