Filmmaker joins star-crossed search for a 70-year-old plane crash in Yukon

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I flew by the C-47 pictured below and always hoped I could find the aircraft it was looking for a C-54 Skymaster.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/fi ... -1.5696957

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Was that your last landing in it? :mrgreen:
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slightly before my time.

Rumour I heard was both pilots heads where looking out the side windows and no one was flying, it hit "perfectly" on an up slope and skidded to a stop. Everyone walked away.
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It’s gotta be in a lake, right?
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or smacked into the side of a mountain and got buried by avalanche.

bottom of Kluane lake, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kluane_Lake that fuckers big.

Also those mountains and glaciers are huge Its mind blowing when you look at a map and realize that glacier is 8 miles wide, 3 deep and 100 Miles long.

hard to tell from this video but those glacier flows you could hide a skycraper in the crevasses

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This video shows the a route I would take heading into Kluane National Park from Haines Junction. YHT
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My pictures of the C47

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Here is a great site about wrecks all over the north http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search116.htm
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