At the engine controls, you would have a throttle, propeller control, and fuel mixture control for each engine. The lever with the flat handle on it would be the control for the flaps. Looks like the engjnes and all the avionics (electronics) had long since been removed. I hope you left the coins and left one yourself. To me, as a pilot, this is a memorial to a life that was lost.
East Greenwich, R. I. - November 22, 1971 July 23, 2021 East Greenwich, Rhode Island - November 22, 1971 On November 22, 1971, a twin-engine Aero Commander 560A, (Reg. No. N87K), took off from Chatham, Massachusetts, bound for Newark, New Jersey. The plane carried a pilot, co-pilot, and four passengers. As the flight was passing over Rhode Island it encountered sleet, a low cloud ceiling, and icing conditions on the wings. Ground fog was also present. When one of the engines began to run erratically, the pilot radioed T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, R. I., and requested landing instructions. As the flight was headed toward Green, the aircraft went down in a thickly-wooded swampy area off South Road in East Greenwich. The distressed aircraft was witnessed by a local resident who immediately notified authorities. When rescue workers reached the scene they had to extricate the injured from the fuselage. All were transported to Kent County Hospital where one 58-year-old woman passenger succumbed to her injuries. Sources: The Rhode Island Pendulum, “1 Killed, 5 Injured in E. G. Plane Crash”, November 24, 1971, page 1. NTSB report #NYC72AN069 Aviation Safety Network
I Was 8 Years Old When It Crashed But Back In 1970's We Didn't Have 24 / 7 News --- RU-vid Has Showed Me a Lot That Happened In My Days ( You Both Too ) That I Never Heard On The News Back In The 70's --- We Only Had World News 6:30 pm Mon - Friday - So It Was Easy For Me To Miss News Back In Those Days - Good Video
What a unique but sad explore! Interesting to see what still remains after all these years. You did a great job with the historical commentary! Glad you got to it and back through the sinky mud...walking through swampy areas can be real tricky (and sticky!) Thanks for sharing! 👍😁
In 1979, the National Transportation Safety Board reviewed light-twin engine-failure accidents, involving the 24 most popular model-groups of light twins between 1972 and 1976. They found that the -engined twin-Commanders had averaged slightly over 3.4 engine-failure accidents per hundred-thousand hours, the second worst number of all aircraft under review. The most engine failures were suffered by the small-engine versions of the Piper Apache, at 6.9 failures per hundred thousand hours; the third-worst, the Beechcraft Travel Air, averaged 2.9 failures; the average for all models was only 1.6. -Wikipedia
people leave coins as a sign of respect. It shows the world that the deceased is still in the family’s thoughts, and they also last longer than flowers. Think of these coins as a symbol.
Wow.. That's crazy. And my grandmother said all those Hostsa plants growing all around... Smh she wishes she was there to dig some up.. Lol another great video
When I was little, around 1993, we rented a farm in Grosse Isle, Manitoba, Canada. It was surrounded by trees. Little me thought it was a forest. One day, my friend and I went exploring and came across a downed airplane. I think it was a fighter plane. It was a one seater and was very old. We moved out of Manitoba the following summer and I never got to see it again.
The cause of the crash as mentioned in the video is probably due to an engine failure. However, there are procedures such as this specifically regarding to multi-engine failures. My guess is the pilot didn't maintain a sufficient airspeed during the engine failure which resulted into what is known as a "VMC Rollover". My sympathies go out to the families and personnel on board.
I hope you placed the coins back where you found them. People do that exact same thing to head stones and its a tok😂in some way left behind by someone intentionally that came to visit the site. Its so very sad but thank you for sharing may the person that didn't survive forever rest in peace
Its so deep in the middle of the woods they’ll have to chop down miles of trees. And even after that they won’t be able to get machinery through there, its swampy most of the ground is mud
@@urbaxvibesthey could longline it out with a helicopter. I used to be a heli logger in British Columbia and we were working on a remote island on the coast and there was an old Cessna that crashed with two people inside,they never found the plane until the 80s so it was there for ten years before it was discovered.There are lots of bears and wolves on the unpopulated island,It was kind of weird looking at it in the late 90s.
Tacacco plants maybe but why would tobacco plants be in the woods like that ? Unless it was a tobacco field at one point. Plus it looks a parachuting airplane ✈️. You can look up the tail numbers and see what it was used for. The engine parts and aluminum is worth money to those willing to do the work to recycle it 😂. I wouldn't but I know some people who would. Looks like someone cleaned out the electronics. That coin would be worth something 😂
Given the history of the crash site, those coins werw probably left by other explorers to pay respects as people often do on tombstones. Really cool explore. Keep it up!
Not turbines and what you were looking at is where they removed the engines from they aren't even there. What you pointed at and called turbines was one of the landing gear. I've been to this
