Скачать или смотреть B-29 crash site on Bleaklow

This was a B29 crash site. The aircraft crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near Glossop in Derbyshire on 3 November 1948. The plane was on a routine daytime flight with two other planes, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood near Warrington. The pilot, Captain Landon Tanner, and co-pilot Captain Harry Stroud were flying by instruments as the area was covered in a low cloud. Based on the flight time, the crew believed it had passed the hills and began to descend. At about 11:00, the aircraft hit the ground at 610m above sea level, 300m northeast of the summit of Higher Shelf Stones, and it was engulfed in flames.


All 11 crew and 2 military passengers perished in the crash.


Co-ordinates - Latitude: 53.4505583 | Longitude: -1.8650333333333333



#shorts #b-29 #peakdistrictnationalpark #peakdistrictwalks #crashsite #RIPUSA #peakdistrictphotography #visitpeakdistrict #thepeakdistrict #peakdistrict #yourpeakdistrict #planecrash