Six Unknown Plane Wrecks in Nevada

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

There’s a BBC report about the Amazon Mechanical Turk effort to find Steve Fosset’s missing plane from satellite imagery. One of the bits of information in it is a bit mind-boggling:

The search in Nevada by the Civil Air Patrol and many private pilots has discovered six previously unknown wrecks - some of which were decades old.

This is a part of one of the most completely mapped, intensively satellite-covered countries in the world. Further, a lot of it’s desert - rock and mountain, not much in the way of trees to conceal a crash, or water to crash into and sink. One plane taking days to locate is bizarre enough, but to find six others that nobody knew about in the process? Were they ones that were searched for before and not found, or are there planes falling from interdimensional rifts over Nevada?

EDIT: A bit more information on the other wrecks.

Comments

[ragnvaeig.livejournal.com]

Having gone into the backcountry out there for a few weeks at a time, most of it is really poorly mapped because no one goes out there. It's very sparsely populated, vast and wild--as in bring guns and dogs to make sure the other apex predators don't eat you. I bet there are more lost planes in Alaska, too.