Melting glacier reveals plane crash half a century ago
A small plane that crashed in 1968 has been rediscovered in Switzerland, more than half a century after the Aletsch glacier melted.
Stefan Gavner of Concordia Hat, a mountain hut belonging to the Swiss Alpine Club, told DPA on Saturday that a tour guide had found parts of a Pepper Cherokee in the past few days about 2,800 meters above sea level in Valais Alps.
At the time of the crash, the three passengers on the plane, who were injured, had been retrieved, but removing the wreckage was not technically feasible.
The Swiss newspaper, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, reported 54 years ago that the dead were a teacher, a doctor and his son.
Gavner said the wreck was known to have remained under the ice and snow.
He added that the melting sent debris over an area of about 40 x 200 metres.
The owner of the hut added that there are more pieces that will come out at this location.
Police asked mountaineers to report any new finds, but not to touch them, so as not to risk injury.
A police spokesman said planes were currently recovering the wreckage.
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