Kapal Terbang Hilang 53 Tahun Ditemui

dani-rox · Post time 11-2-2015 12:33 AM

Edited by dani-rox at 11-2-2015 12:43 AM

Chilean mountaineers find plane lost in Andes over 53 years ago

Feb 9 (Reuters) - After a grueling journey up into the rarefied air of the Andes mountains, an expedition team announced it has discovered the fuselage of a passenger plane that went missing over a half century ago.

The LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 twin-propeller aircraft was reported missing on April 3, 1961, near the city of Linares, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of the Chilean capital of Santiago. Eight players and the coach of the top-flight Green Cross soccer club as well as three referees were among the 24 passengers traveling aboard the plane.

The airline, now part of Latam Airlines Group, the region's largest carrier, was state-owned at the time of the accident.

Rescuers found the tail end of the aircraft and some human remains a week after the crash, an official who asked not to be named told Reuters, but the recovery effort was abandoned near the snow-capped peaks due to its dangerous and remote location.

The rediscovery of the plane is shedding new light on the tragedy, and rekindling the hopes of a long-awaited farewell for some of the passengers' surviving family members.

To get to the crash site at 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) above sea level, the nine-member mountaineering team traveled two days by horseback, traversing streams and ravines, and then spent another two days climbing deep into the mountains. It took another two days to get back down.

For expedition team leader Lower Lopez, who unsuccessfully made two attempts last year to locate the plane, the third time was the charm. January to April is typically the best time of the year to climb in the Chilean Andes south of the capital.

His team found pieces of the plane, including a propeller, scattered about a rocky slope.

"We also found human remains," Lopez told Reuters on Monday.

Several family members want to make the journey to the site themselves to pay their final respects, he said.

"They want to go up, close a chapter in their lives, see where the plane and the remains of their loved ones are," said Lopez, adding that some family members had reached out to him personally. Efforts to contact family members for this story were unsuccessful.

"If they aren't physically able, I won't go up with them ... it's too dangerous," Lopez added. (Reporting by Anthony Esposito, editing by G Crosse)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/chile-airplane-idUSL1N0VJ2N720150210

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[size=14.3999996185303px]LAN Chile Douglas DC-3

dani-rox · Post time 11-2-2015 12:36 AM

Discovery: A group of climbers have discovered what they believe to be the wreckage of the LAN Chile Douglas DC-3 that went down April 3, 1961 with 24 people on board, including a number of footballers

Members of the top-division Chilean team Green Cross, several of whom died in the 1961 plane crash

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ice_sky92 · Post time 11-2-2015 01:33 AM

Speechless.

I wonder where are you MH370.

PongKang · Post time 11-2-2015 02:07 AM

Rest in peace.

dani-rox · Post time 11-2-2015 02:11 AM

ice_sky92 replied at 11-2-2015 01:33 AM
Speechless.

I wonder where are you MH370.

berita mcm ni bg sikit harapan kan... satu hari nanti mudah2an kita akan tahu gak nasib MH370.

kimsa-ra · Post time 11-2-2015 02:46 AM

mh370 hanya Allah mengetahui..

kimsa-ra · Post time 11-2-2015 02:47 AM

Edited by kimsa-ra at 10-2-2015 06:49 PM

double posting

FanTasyCreaTioN · Post time 11-2-2015 04:33 AM

To get to the crash site at 3,000 meters (9,843 feet) above sea level, the nine-member mountaineering team traveled two days by horseback, traversing streams and ravines, and then spent another two days climbing deep into the mountains. It took another two days to get back down.

perghh!~
hanya yang betul2 fit ja boleh ni

aTiKah_aYuNi · Post time 11-2-2015 07:47 AM

Rest in peace.

twins · Post time 11-2-2015 09:16 AM

Semoga satu hari nanti kita akan dapat khabar berita tentang MH370
Aamiin....

enchantedlurve · Post time 11-2-2015 09:20 AM

hopefully jgn la lame sgt mcm ni br nk jumpa mh370...

idril · Post time 11-2-2015 09:22 AM

pandai hormat mangsa tragedy, amik gambo sorang2 muka stone je. tak macam ummah tanah besar ke local taiwan ke yg amik gmbo kat tragedy area transasia taiwan siap ber peace2 sambil gelak2