I found out about this while visiting the Cherry Creek Museum. I couldn't find any directions or coordinates so I had to get creative. Here's the full accident report by Dave Trojan from 2015. www.aircraftwrecks.com/pages/...
My uncle is the one who died in this wreck. His plane lost oxygen and he went unconscious. Because he went unconscious the plane veered significantly off course and they were not able to find the plane and his remains for a month which was an extremely difficult time for my dad and grandparents and his wife. Uncle Ken was a great man and was best friends with my father. He left a wife and daughter.
@@PiDsPagePrototypes Yes I was name after him although I never knew him. Even though he was a lot older than my father, he took my father with him wherever he went. He was my dad's best friend and he was devastated by his death. That month was the hardest of his life not knowing exactly what happened to him.
@@kenbacon640 I went down the rabbit hole on the story, and did spot where the aircrafts remains are via Google Earth. It's in a beautiful resting place, with the appearance of being 'close to the sky'.
I am a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer and enlisted aircrew with over 2,600 flight hours. Those of us that did this for a living take these stories very much to heart. It is a sad thing - and he died serving his Nation, and serving for all of us. Thank you for your Uncle's service, and your families sacrifice. Many people will be thinking of him this Memorial Day.
Enjoyed your video. My father was Colonel Robert S Buchanan. He was the commandant of Edward Air Force Base test pilot school in the 60’s. Before that he was stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He crashed on takeoff in an F100 and bailed out at a very low altitude. I remember him telling me all of his boot straps on both boots snapped when he hit the ground and he was temporarily paralyzed. A farmer had seen the crash and drove out to pick him up and take him to the base. After some time he fully regained his ability to use his legs and went on to have a stellar career in the Air Force and afterwards in Aerospace. Very proud of all these early test pilots who risked their lives.
Amazing video. I am from Uruguay, 85. I did see F100s from the US here in Montevideo when I was in my midteens. They were touring South America, still remember the noise and the fire from the afterburners.
Thank you for doing this for the _vast_ majority of us who would otherwise never have the chance to get up there ourselves. I appreciate the supreme effort on your part.
Thank you for this touching video. My father was in the very first group of French pilots who came to train on the F-100 at Nellys AFB in 1958. This impressive aircraft therefore rocked my entire childhood.
That is an excellent site, I do aviation archaeology in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I've been to 35 different wrecks. Nice work there congrats on you're find
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An F86 Sabre who thought he was lost in fog on final approach to McChord AFB in Lakewood Washington had actually flown all the way across the Canadian border and over the suburbs of North Vancouver BC straight into the top of Grouse Mountain, the USAF and RCAF recovered the pilots remains but pieces of the engine are still there with a memorial cairn for Lt. LAMAR J. BARLOW who crashed on Feb 12,1954
I was just at the US Air Force Museum last week and I was admiring a Super Sabre up close and personal. It was a good looking jet for it's time. Also it was the first combat jet to be able to fly super sonic in level flight.
Crashed aircraft get stripped all the time! I remember that the airforce has hauled parts and whole aircraft from remote areas. Museums and collectors loot or haul off complete wrecks for restoring or key parts that in some cases haven’t been manufactured in 50 to 80 years.
There's a couple of crash sites I want to get to in the Colorado mountains. One of them is my grandmas first husband way back in the 1950s. It was an Air Force C-47. Crashed into Mt Yale in September 1956. No survivors.
Amazing how since 1957, the ash from the fires has not blown away, nor blended with the dirt around it. It looks as though it crashed just recently. Desert climate is amazing. On top of that, the fact none of the brush destroyed by the fire in 1957 ever regrew
@@stevencramsie9172 sure, a person will spend every weekend for the next 20 years going up and down steep hills to get thousands of pounds of metal. I guess there are obsessive compulsive losers like that. I guess you win.
No. You're thinking of the F104 Starfighter, nicknamed The Widow Maker by German pilots. The F100 was not that plane. The F100 was the U.S.'s first true Supersonic fighter; super sonic flying was in it's infancy when the F100 was designed and built so there were going to be accidents. Of the 2500 or so F100's manufactured around 300 were lost in crashes killing the pilots.
@@dukeford8893 I believe that's what I said...around 300 pilots killed in the F100. 242 were shot down or crashed in Viet Nam, others in non combat flying. There is a data base showing every single F100 incident from day one until retiring in 1979, including shot down over Vietnam, crashes here in the states, England, China, Taiwan, Okinawa, and etc. etc. Every single incident of every 100 ever. 449 either crashed or were shot down or had other "incidents" worldwide that were considered write offs, not all were fatal of course, and not all being flown by the U.S. The Starfighter though was monumentally worse. It had the worst accident/death per flying hour than any other plane, ever. At least 1000 were destroyed in crashes and adding U.S. deaths to worldwide deaths there were over 400 deaths in the 104. Hence the Germans nicknamed it 'The Flying Coffin."
The cause of the crash doesn't sound mysterious. It sounds like it was undetermined. As for protected, if its on public land its likely documented as a cultural site and, ultimately, protected. However the ability to enforce that has to do with funding and priorities. As a matter of personal code, out of respect to the pilot and the accident, all items related to the wreck should just be left in place. Would you break off a piece of the USS Arizona for a souvenir? Its kind of the same thing. Thanks for the video. It must have been a chore to film.
Generally speaking, any man-made artifacts that have sat on public land for more than 50 years are considered archeological in nature and are illegal to disturb or remove.
I would have asked if you wanted to go but I left quickly with little planning and knew I only had 4 days of good weather. Mid October is generally a good time for a Nevada trip except my camping gear wasn’t good enough to keep me warm at night. Night time temps were in the 30’s so I stayed in cheap motels. I’m looking at those insulated sleeping bag lines at this time. Did you make it to Wetfest?
The forward section burned up. This is from Dave Trojan’s accident report from 2015: The forward section of the plane was completely burnt out. The vertical tail had been cut off and there were torch marks on several other pieces. The Pratt & Whitney J57 engine was relatively intact and by examining the inside of the engine it appeared that it was not running at the time of impact.
Good vid Rod...just for legal info, that crash site, and the plane are still "property" of USAF and thus US Govt, but I would assume given area etc, the remains of said crash have long since been forgotten.
Instead of leaving my gear, I have a cable lock that I run through my suit and chin bar and the bike. No good way to lock the boots up unfortunately if I have to leave them so I just put them under the suit.
@@philmycrackin1034 I kinda want people to find it for themselves, it's one of those sites where if should be hard to find and hard get to, so that people don't go tear apart what's left of it. I will tell you, that the clues aren't obvious, but they are there in the video, and, it's not where most would think to look.
It's the Air Force, if they wanted to they could fly the remains out by helicopter. Men on the ground rig the sling and hook it to the choppers line. If helicopter logging can be done, this could be removed but there was no will to do so.
Just before it was demolished, just that jet engine by itself was probably a half-dozen of your entire lifetimes in taxes! Kinda of a sad end to a historical artifact, but military aircraft are sort-of a consumable. That's why they have ejection seats.
I can’t believe any person would ever fly onboard a airplane is beyond me and then there are whole armies built of flying fighter pilots it’s so mind boggling to me how could anyone physically even do it never mind enjoy it that’s insane to me I’d rather fly on the back of a dragon or large bird than fly on a plane I wonder if someday they will all quit and refuse to fly
Staged?? Who in their right mind would go through that kind of effort to "stage" an aircraft wreck in the mountains?? What purpose would that serve?? 🤦♂️
Take a piece of that crash and you may very well be taking a very bad spirit into your home and life..think before you do something that you dont understand.
