All I can think of is my poor mother, getting a telegram and finding out her husband is missing and she is left with me, a 13-month-old baby boy.” It is sad but joyous,” Scherer told the AFP news agency by email from New York. “All I can say is that I am overjoyed, just knowing where he is. Kuhles was tasked with conducting the search by Bill Scherer, whose officer father was on board when the plane crashed. There were no human remains in what was left of the craft. “My Lisu guides and porters were very uneasy about our high camp location,” he added.īut the team finally located the plane on a snow-clad mountain top last month, where they were able to identify the wreckage by the tail number. It was a potentially lethal mission: in 2018 three Lisu hunters had died of hypothermia in the same area when they were caught in an unseasonal September snowstorm, Kuhles said, while two others “barely escaped alive”. The expedition took months and saw Kuhles and a team of guides from the local Lisu ethnic group ford chest-deep rivers and camp in freezing temperatures at high altitudes.
The wreckage of the World War II aircraft found in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh It simply disappeared,” said Clayton Kuhles, a US adventurer who led the mission after a request from the son of one of those on board the doomed flight.
“This aircraft was never heard from again. The C-46 transport aircraft was carrying 13 people from Kunming in southern China when it disappeared in stormy weather over a mountainous stretch of Arunachal Pradesh state in the first week of 1945. The majority on board had booked their flights to Patna, a city of 1.5 million and the capital of India’s poorest state, Bihar, airline officials in Calcutta said.A missing World War II plane has been identified in India’s remote Himalayas nearly 80 years after it crashed with no survivors, following a search in a treacherous high-altitude area. The plane was en route to New Delhi, with scheduled stops at Patna and Lucknow. The United News of India quoted witness Ullas Mandal as saying: “I saw the aircraft wrapped in smoke, wobbling in the sky at a low altitude for a few seconds before its left wing was torn off after grazing a neem tree.” “I was sitting by the window in the front section of the aircraft, which started shaking dangerously when we were preparing to land after smoke was sighted,” said Rohit Ranjan Sinha, a Calcutta businessman. Witnesses on the ground and at least one survivor said the plane was smoking or in flames before it smashed into the Gardanibagh housing complex for government employees. He said the plane was in “perfect condition.” The pilot reported no problems during the flight,” he said. “There was nothing wrong with the plane’s systems. I thank God for it,” said Bharat Rungta, a passenger who told Press Trust of India he was jolted out of sleep when the Alliance Air plane went down and “managed to jump out of the plane.” Seven passengers survived when they were thrown from the plane as it exploded on impact, officials said. Modi, director of the airport authority at Patna, said the crash killed 51 people on board and four people on the ground. Now Boeing and Indian aviation officials are investigating what caused the crash and whether the plane caught fire before or after impact. The plane’s cockpit voice recorder has been found, Civil Aviation Minister Sharad Yadav said. Thirty-nine bodies, most of them burned beyond recognition, were pulled from wreckage after the Boeing 737-200 crashed into two brick houses about a mile from its destination. The plane, which was exactly 20 years old, was scheduled to be taken out of service by the end of the year. P A T N A, India, J- A Boeing 737 passenger plane with 58 people on board crashed in flames into a housing complex near the eastern Indian city of Patna today.
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