US military plane that crashed in 1946 will emerge from Alpine glacier earlier than anticipated
A Swiss soldier works on an engine of a U.S. C-53 Skytrooper that emerged from the ice of the Gauli Glacier in Switzerland in 2018, more than 70 years after the plane crash-landed at the top of the glacier in Nov. 1946. Analysis of ice samples collected from the glacier in 2019 led a scientist to update predictions of where and when the plane's fuselage will emerge from the ice.
By KARIN ZEITVOGEL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 10, 2020
Guillaume Jouvet, a glaciologist at the ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading technical universities, made his prediction after using radioactive traces to accurately date sections of the Gauli Glacier in the Alps, where a U.S. C-53 Skytrooper Dakota crash-landed in 1946, and with a complex model to calculate the trajectory the plane would have taken down the glacier over the years.
The operation to rescue the passengers and crew of a U.S. C-53 Skytrooper is underway at the top of the Gauli Glacier in Switzerland, where the plane crash-landed in Nov. 1946. Analysis of ice samples collected from the glacier in 2019 led a scientist to update predictions of where and when the plane's fuselage will emerge from the ice.
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The crew and passengers, which included six soldiers, four women and a little girl, were rescued and survived, according to a Nov. 24, 1946 story in Stars and Stripes.
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