Old aircraft wreckage found on Alaska glacier

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Old aircraft wreckage found on Alaska glacier

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (*******) - Military officials said on Thursday they had found what is believed to be old aircraft wreckage, along with some possible bone tissue, scattered on a glacier near Anchorage.

The wreckage was spotted on Sunday when Alaska Army National Guardsmen were conducting a helicopter training flight in the Knik Glacier region northeast of Anchorage, officials from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson said. "It looks like it is a military aircraft," said Air Force Master Sergeant Mikal Canfield, a spokesman for the Anchorage base. No other details about the wreckage were available, he said.

The base called the wreck possibly "historic" and said the Federal Aviation Administration had issued a temporary flight restriction for the area, but did not elaborate.

http://news.yahoo.com/old-aircraft-w...032309478.html

Looks like JPAC getting involved too.

[LineDoggie]

Could be from all kinds of sources

USAAF Aleutians Campaign
USAAF/Soviet Lend Lease
USAF or US Army 1950's/60's

[timetraveller]

I reckon it could be the B52 that crashed that some say with a Nuke aboard

[Atlantic Friend]

A Focke-Wulf 290 bringing Hitler to his secret Arctic base!

[Ought Six]

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/articl...rash-killed-52

Officials say that a plane crash discovered earlier in June near Alaska's Colony Glacier is likely an Air Force C-124 Globemaster that crashed in the area in 1952, killing all 52 aboard.

According to Capt. Jamie Dobson, a spokeswoman with Joint MIA/POW Accounting Command (JPAC), which spearheaded the investigation and recovery efforts, debris recovered from the crash site points to the Korean-War-era crash.

"Some of the evidence we've found correlates with that (crash)," she said. "That doesn't eliminate the possibility that there could be other things. We're not taking anything off the table yet."

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