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A piece of B-47 wreckage near the summit of Wright Peak. Due to the low-altitude nature of the training run, the crew had been out of radio contact since leaving Watertown. Therefore, when the plane failed to appear in Plattsburgh at 7am when expected, no one had any idea where it was.
17 Φεβ 2023 · In January 1962, a B-47 jet bomber crashed into Wright Peak in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks. 10% of all B-47s crashed with 100s of deaths.
18 Ιαν 2012 · Jan 18, 2012 — Fifty years ago, in the early morning darkness of Jan. 16, 1962, an Air Force jet bomber slammed into the top of Wright Peak, in the Adirondack backcountry near Lake Placid. The...
15 Ιαν 2023 · The book chronicles the story of a U.S Strategic Air Command B-47 Stratojet, flying at 400 miles an hour during a practice bombing run in wind-driven snow and freezing rain, that crashed into Wright Peak in the Adirondack Mountains in 1962.
27 Μαρ 2014 · B-47 Strafojet Crash Kills 3 BASTROP, La. A B47 stratojet bomber crashed and exploded on a cross country test flight Thursday, killing three airmen. One officer parachuted at low altitude and escaped with a broken arm.
A B-47 crashed on Wright Peak in the #Adirondacks almost 60 years ago. 4 crew members tragically lost their lives and parts of the wreckage remain on the mountain to this day.
10 Ιουλ 2015 · Some Adirondack wrecks, like the B-47 bomber that slammed into Wright Peak in 1962, killing four, are well known. Others are barely remembered. Now that his exploits are becoming known more widely, people are coming forward to tell Van Laer of crashes that, as far as he can tell, have no paper trail at all.
