RCAF B25 crash site
 

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My Son Alex took me up into a crash site of an RCAF B25 that crashed in 53. Small window of opportunity to see it as the snow pack has to melt enough to uncover it and the weather near the peak has to be good. Wing and engine nacelle completely uncovered this year.

Flew up in an R44! :thup2:

Hi Harry

Thanks for that.

Really interesting.

I am intrigued by 50's era crashes for some reason. They seen a relative unkn publicly but there were many.

I stooged around the net and found what may be the a/c you saw:

http://pinecone-burke.blogspot.ca/20...-crash-in.html

Nice info at that link with some photos and there is a PDF for Google Viewer there with news articles, pics and crew info.

Again, really interesting. Thanks.

regards
Darrell

From Collin Stevens post on my Facebook
Crashed 28 Jan 1953; Mitchell (B-25); Search and rescue pin # 155; Pilot was McIntosh; Aircraft identification number VC5426; RCAF ; 5 killed; Found 15 Sept. 1953 at ______ foot level ___ mile ___ Widgeon Lake. (from RCAF Crash List) [_____ = Omitted by *Colin]

Hi Harry

Up early?;)

Yup, that's the one.

There was a recent Article in Maple Leaf about a Sabre crash in NB.

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/tml/art...24&y=2012&m=09

regards
Darrell

Hard to get the scale of the photo until the last
 

Hi Harry

Interesting photos, hard to get the scale or even what you are looking at until the last photo with the wheel and prop. Then the scale jumps right out at you and the other photos then drop into perspective.

Cheers Phil

I visited a crash site on Vancouver Island earlier this year and am looking for some others.
Here are some links I found of the event and one fellow's recent pictures.

http://www.cowichanlake.ca/area_hmtbolduc.php

http://drsuzistravels.blogspot.ca/20...-lockheed.html

I am not sure if I have posted the links correctly.
Cheers
Randy

What!! You didn't hike up like the rest of us?
The exercise would have done you good. :thup:

Did you look for the lost Slumach mine while you were up there?

The B25 my trip up and Alex
 

Yes those archive pictures are of the B25 as it was found that first year after the recovery of the crew remains. If I'd known about this wreck when i was younger I would have gone on foot but not these days. plus most years it's never uncovered by the snow pack. It's late September and we are in to about 6 weeks since the last spit of rain around here which is rare but also means no new snow up at that peak. Believe me it impacted only meter's from the peak as so many other crash sites around here. OK to fly around them on a clear day but take a wrong turn in cloud following a valley and you run into cummulogranit clouds. The crash above on the island, the trans Canada airlines flight near Chilliwack, all just meters short of the peak. A DC3 crashed not that long ago on a 15 minute hop from Vancouver to Sydney, about 50 kms. There usual flight altitude gave them 20 feet of clearance over the highest peak in between except for the fact it had 60 foot trees that ripped the wings off and the fuselage thundered over the peak and down into a barn on the other side. a few feet left a few feet right and you make it home safe and sound.
Yes Alex is down to his last few hours for his commercial endorsement. He is looking forward to where ever this is going to take him. No moss on that kid says proud father! :thup: