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 VBJag
   
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
 |  |  | Texas International Flight 655
< on 6/8/2011 4:59 AM >
|  | | | This is a repost. I posted this in the photography section back in December when I first visited it. A lot of people post the same places over and over, or post the same thread over and over. But I know we in the South are different, and better!
But I think this is deserving, especially since I know not everyone here has seen this. Personally from the research I have done, I have not been able to find another plane wreck of this size still intact. Other plane wrecks that have been left have been vandalized or had pieces stolen, etc. This I believe may be the only one like it.
I've been told by first responders that if I had dug around I probably would have found human remains and luggage. It's not easy to get to, it was a 3 hour hike through the middle of a National Forest and a 2,000ft hike up a steep cliff of a mountain in the middle of nowhere. I understand why it was left the way it was.
I now present to you... Texas International Flight 655
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.
Due to bad weather the pilot flew of course and was unaware of the sudden change in elevation of the Ouachita Mountains in southern Arkansas; 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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Price
Location: Houston,TX
Gender: Male
Urbex: Keeping record of things most people have forgotten.
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 1 on 6/8/2011 6:03 AM >
| | | | just sent u a friend inv
this is insane! kinda reminds me of brio in the woos next to me..
everything as it was after evac/disaster
“It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath our feet.”
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dwtaylor999
Location: Unassigned Lands, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 2 on 6/8/2011 1:24 PM >
| | | | Very nice. I thought they always gathered everything up and examined it in some hanger somewhere. Bizarre it was just pretty much left there.
Ruins, the fate of all cities. |
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Twisted Orchid
Gender: Female
My inner child is a mean little fuck
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 3 on 6/8/2011 2:07 PM >
| | | | Fascinating find! And yes, for the record the South is better!
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VBJag
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 4 on 6/9/2011 6:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by dwtaylor999
Very nice. I thought they always gathered everything up and examined it in some hanger somewhere. Bizarre it was just pretty much left there.
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I couldn't imagine something like this happening today. Of course you can't compare a Convair to a 757 but still.
In the NTSB report they have the transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. The pilot was trying to fly VFR at night, filed no flight plan (not necessary back then) and just assumed flying at 2,000ft would be A-OK. The co-pilot grew concerned, and read off the charts. The last words, he said the minimum en-route altitude here is 44 hun... and that's where it cut off.
You can tell by the rotational damage to the propellor that it was rotating when it impacted into the mountain. Very hard to discern what is what. Everything is shredded.
But to me, this and if I can ever get to Pripyat will be my top finds/explore.
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CazyBeast2
 
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 5 on 6/10/2011 5:28 PM >
| | | | Wow, interesting find & nice pics.
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misfit1969
Location: Rising Star, Texas
Gender: Male
| | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 6 on 6/14/2011 9:32 AM >
| | | | i lived in el dorado for 15 years and never heard of this. that area is very remote and i can see why the plane was left there back then. wow, and sickin at the same time. great pics.
Don't point your finger, unless your hand is clean. |
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VBJag
Location: Oklahoma
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Texas International Flight 655
<Reply # 7 on 6/15/2011 4:02 PM >
| | | | Thanks. It's a really neat place to visit, but humble knowing that people died where I stood.
I could hike up there over and over and still never get enough. Someday I'll dig through the 30+ year of leaves and see what I might be able to find.
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