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 VBJag
   
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
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< on 12/15/2010 7:57 PM >
|  | | | This has been on the top of my UE list for a long time. Certainly the hardest to do site I have ever visited. Three hours and a 1.5 mile hike up a steep slope of a mountain I finally had my reward.
This may be the only site like this in the entire world. Now for a little history:
"On the evening of September 27th, 1973 Convair 600 N94230 operating as Texas International Airlines Flight 655, departed Memphis, TN for Dallas, TX. After a stop in El Dorado, AR the flight continued on for a scheduled stop in Texarkana.
Unaware of the change in elevation of the Ouachita Mountains in southern Arkansas and combined with bad weather the plane crashed on the steep slope of a mountain. The plane disintegrated upon impact and all 11 people (8 passengers and 3 crew members) on the plane perished.
The wreckage would finally be found 3 days later. Because of the remote location and the difficulty in accessing the site, only the black boxes and the bodies of the deceased were removed. 37 years later the plane still sits there entombed on the side of the mountain in the same condition as the day it crashed."
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fiftyone_eggs
 
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 1 on 12/15/2010 8:38 PM >
| | | | holy shit - incredible stuff!
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macgruder
  
Location: Northern NJ
Gender: Male
| |  | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 2 on 12/15/2010 9:31 PM >
| | | | my god, that is insane. Excellent stuff! Must be weird knowing people died right there where you were standing, shooting pictures.
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phrenzee
 
Location: Canada
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 3 on 12/15/2010 9:34 PM >
| | | | This is tremendously cool.
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butrphly
Location: Connecticut
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 4 on 12/15/2010 9:49 PM >
| | | | wow.. this must have been pretty eerie/intense for you.. thanks for sharing!
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot
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kts
Location: Laurel, MD
Gender: Male
LOL WAT?
| | | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 5 on 12/15/2010 9:50 PM >
| | | | wow pretty crazy and very cool.
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RenegadeOfFunk
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 6 on 12/15/2010 10:05 PM >
|  | | | That's awesome. My old roommate went to college for Crash Investigation for the FAA so he used to hike in to find old accidents. In Arizona there is a B24 bomber that is still on the side of Humphrey's mountain that you can hike up to as well. I love finding wreckage and airplane graveyards.
[last edit 12/15/2010 10:06 PM by RenegadeOfFunk - edited 1 times]
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JD
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 7 on 12/15/2010 10:14 PM >
| | | | Wow, that's crazy. Very cool(and tragic) site.
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msgsudz
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 8 on 12/15/2010 10:49 PM >
| | | | one of the more unique sets i've seen on here. tragic and incredible.
"She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!" - Zapp Brannigan
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VBJag
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 9 on 12/16/2010 12:06 AM >
| | | | This was worth the grueling 3 hour hike through the dense woods to get to it. Yet I wish I never would have had the opportunity to come here. Eerie to know that 11 people died here.
Compared to pictures that someone else took from '97 it's still all in the same spot. I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting what I found. Everything is still there and left untouched after all these years.
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Noss4ra2
Location: Delaware
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 10 on 12/16/2010 12:48 AM >
| | | | This is a one of a kind trip, very bizarre! Well worth the hike, I'm sure. Thanks for sharing!
"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
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waspytron
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 11 on 12/16/2010 1:10 AM >
| | | | Nice that is a pretty epic plane crash. There is one near my house that is in the flight path of the airport and as you stand around the pieces of the broken plane you can hear other planes fly over you. It is pretty intense.
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Neil T
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 12 on 12/16/2010 3:17 AM >
| | | | Just wow.
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Location: MEMPHIS
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 13 on 12/16/2010 4:24 AM >
| | | | awesome
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zer0_g
Location: Marin County, CA.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 14 on 12/17/2010 1:01 AM >
| | | | wow what a sweet spot,
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cdevon
Location: west county
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 15 on 12/17/2010 1:59 AM >
| | | | holy shit! you are a god. from the looks of the wreck, they did not suffer.
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seicer
Location: New York
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 16 on 12/17/2010 4:31 AM >
| | | | Creepy!
I remember backpacking through the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia last year - Seneca Creek, if I remember correctly, and finding at least three separate planes. Or what was left of them. Windshields, engines, pieces of the exterior. This stuff happens more often that I thought.
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VBJag
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 17 on 12/17/2010 2:01 PM >
| | | | Posted by cdevon
holy shit! you are a god. from the looks of the wreck, they did not suffer.
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My first thought when I read about the accident was that I hoped they didn't suffer. The pilot made several critical mistakes that should have never been made. How a pilot can make the mistakes he did is beyond me.
After surveying the wreck, I knew everyone had to have died instantly. The plane was shredded beyond belief.
From the NTSB report
| "The accident was not survivable, because of the structural deformation and the disintegration of the fuselage. Longitudinal forces at impact were calculated by the FAA's Civil Aeromedical Institute personnel to be in excess of 600 mean g." |
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RenegadeOfFunk
Location: Boston, MA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 18 on 12/17/2010 2:53 PM >
| | | | After going back and looking up more on wikipedia it seems a handful of those Corvair's have gone down including Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane.
[last edit 12/17/2010 2:54 PM by RenegadeOfFunk - edited 1 times]
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