—Be neat if the pilot was still around to see her after 70 years.—
Notice the canopy is still closed? I have a feeling nobody walked away from that one.
As the article states:
Sadly, authorities believe Copping died trying to cross the desert. The nearest town from the crash site is 200 miles away.
“Once he had crashed there nobody was going to come and get him,” Saunders said. “It is more likely he tried to walk out of the desert but ended up walking to his death. It is too hideous to contemplate.”
True, but there are a lot of stories of guys who ditched their plane, and once it stopped, got out and carefully closed the canopy, even if the thing was totalled!
At least, I would hope that is the case. It would be a great story.
They can track it down, I bet. Get some serial numbers (anything that could have been taken or stolen probably was) find out where the plane went, etc.