A morbid but moving reminder...

[Shadrach]

A friend (non-pilot, but enthusiastic) of mine recently did some hiking on Hood and was debating a visit to the site of this 36 year old crash site (there are apparently two M20s that found a final resting place on Mt. Hood).  He ultimately chose a different destination, but the idea was inspired by a thread found on a Portland area hiker message board. The music (Guided by Voices' Awfull bliss) in the video is fitting. The footage is especially poignant for me as the paint scheme of this poor C model is almost identical to my F.  N9746M - The non-instrument rated 227hr pilot was 32 yrs old on that 1st day of Dec 1975, the same age that I was when I became a partner in my F model back in '06. 

Don't know if anyone will find this interesting, but thought I'd share... resolution is lacking but good enough.

Video linky

High res pics found at the links below...

http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6262

http://www.portlandhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5677&hilit=plane+crash

[John Pleisse]

WOW, Ross! Pretty cool....eerie, but cool.

 

JP

 

[N33GG]

Very interesting.  Thanks for posting.

[Shadrach]

I'm with you J...made the hair on my neck stand up the first time I saw the video, but that's probably because it's so close in appearance to what I'm flying.  

I'm sure a lot of the crushing is due to snow pack, but snow pack did not deform the motor-mount, separate the wings and distort the spar... Poor guy went in hard and fast. I'm hope it was instant.  

He was 10s of miles off course, descended into inadvertent IMC which contained icing conditions as well...in a mountainous region - the outcome was almost assured.  

Nonetheless sad and as you said, eerie...but kind of cool...which is an odd juxtaposition to the melancholy it inspires.