Military plane found 60 years after it went down on Alaskan glacier

Wreckage of a military plane believed to have crashed on Colony Glacier, east of Anchorage, AK, was discovered on June 10. Along with the wreckage, human remains of the 52 people who had been on board the plane were also found. This is a story that struck a chord with me. It reminds me of the stories you read occasionally of mammoths being found in glaciers in Russia or even the story of Captain America that was touched on in “The Avengers” earlier this year. Unfortunately, these people weren’t lucky enough to live in an age when medical miracles like that could happen. According to an AP account, the civil air patrol member was Terris Moore, who was president of the University of Alaska. After returning from the site, he told reporters that the plane “obviously was flying at full Read more…