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![]() A friend of mine and I hiked up into the Olympic forest to find this crash site. He ended up contacting survivors, family of the deceased, etc and uncovered an amazing amount of information. Last I heard, he went back up with a GPS to mark the debris field. It's a sad story...SB-17 crashes in severe IMC returning from a search and rescue mission. The photos at the site cover the crew being rescued, the aircraft preparing for its final mission, and the site as it looks today. It was touching to find the hub, broken prop blades and engines scattered among the rocks and wildflowers and breathtaking scenery only two years ago. The biggest issue, which might be a topic for discussion here, is that the pilot's career was destroyed because the crash was blamed on him despite the extreme, uncontrollable conditions reported by the other crewmembers. http://www.peak.org/~mikey/746.htm |
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