Ever run across a crashed plane in the High Country?

[BuffaloBob]

While the wife and I were hiking, we came upon day old single engine plane crash. Rescuers had already been there but aviation experts had not. So the crash story was all to apparent.

Flying up the canyon by the 4th of July mine site, ran out of altitude and couldn't turn due to the narrowing of the canyon. They crash landed on an up slope, rocky hillside. Pancaked into the ground and the engine landed quite a distance away. Don't know if there were serious injuries but it surely looked like a hard landing.

A couple other times hunting in the high country I came across shiny, sand cleaned plane bodies. From long ago. I believe there over 350 crash site with wreckage remaining in Colorado mountains. They are marked on aviation maps so they don't keep getting reported.

So any of you folks ever run across a wreck site?
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[TabWhisperer]

Can I get a link to the aviation map showing the locations?

[BuffaloBob]

Can I get a link to the aviation map showing the locations?

Yes here is a link. Select the State and view either a listing or Google Map.
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http://www.planecrashmap.com/list/co

[BuffaloBob]

Here is the Google map.
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[RGINN]

I didn't run across it, but I intentionally went up to the WSU crash site over by the tunnel last summer. Some Oklahoma folks were lost there, one of them we knew of back when I was in High School, so I felt obligated to run up there. Lots of wreckage still left, and some of the bodies were never recovered due to a terrific fire after the crash. It's a calm, peaceful, pretty place, but a little overwhelming to me. Did they ever recover those missiles from that jet fighter over by Aspen?

[BuffaloBob]

I didn't run across it, but I intentionally went up to the WSU crash site over by the tunnel last summer. Some Oklahoma folks were lost there, one of them we knew of back when I was in High School, so I felt obligated to run up there. Lots of wreckage still left, and some of the bodies were never recovered due to a terrific fire after the crash. It's a calm, peaceful, pretty place, but a little overwhelming to me. Did they ever recover those missiles from that jet fighter over by Aspen?

I had forgotten all about them. As far as I know they never located them or discovered what actually happened. That would be a surprising find.

A fellow I worked with also crashed and both he and his wife were killed. Tail Number N2424G, Pagosa Springs, CO May 2, 1999. He was a very experienced pilot with 2,520 flying hours, but mountain flying is always dangerous. Just run out of options sometimes.
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