UNUSUAL – A high mountain guide made an astonishing discovery this Tuesday August 2 in Switzerland. As he climbed the aletsch glacierlocated in the canton of Valais, he came across the wreckage of a plane that had been missing for decades, as you can see in our video at the top of the article.
As reported our colleagues from 20 Minutes.chthe man discovered the debris of the device while testing a new route (made accessible by global warming) on the largest alps glacier. Local police have since successfully identified the plane in question. It is a Piper-Cherokee registered HB-OYL which crashed on June 30, 1968.
The accident, which would be due to a pilot error, caused the death of the three passengers: a professor, a doctor and his son, all three from Zurich. The bodies of the three victims were found shortly after the accident. The carcass had remained in the ice because the technical means of the time did not allow it to be recovered on this difficult to access terrain.
The melting of the glaciers at the origin of the discovery
The cantonal police of Valais will undertake work to recover these pieces ” as soon as possible “she clarified. in a press release. She also added that it was possible that other pieces or other wreckage could be discovered. ” Due to the melting of glaciers ».
In 2018, parts of a US military aircraft crashed 19 November 1946 had been found on the Gauli Glacier in the Bernese Alps. The wreckage of this Dakota C-53 had been located three kilometers away of the crash site, showing how much the ice is moving.