AN-2 crash Kamchatka due icing 20 dec 2024

[pmccarthy]

[440032]

Flight of the Phoenix II?

Glacier Girl II?

ALIVE II? (Plane crash in the Andes.) Where's Bob? haven't seen him in a while. (ah, did someone say KFC?)

Edited Monday at 10:35 PM by 440032

[facthunter]

 What does a bent prop and a cowl   full of snow tell you ? Nothing. Ice effects you getting into the air OR staying in the air,. That plane must have landed in one piece probably when  under control into deep snow. and it's dug in.  Nev

[IBob]

Pretty tough winters up there: I spent part of one on Paramushir, just off the end of the peninsula. The houses of the one village....about 2000 people......disappeared entirely under the depth of packed snow, with only raised escape doors sticking up above the surface enabling the inhabitants to come and go. And the weight of that same snow, which just builds up and progressively compresses to ice, completely bowed in the roof of one of our containers........

[Red]

I managed an hour flying one in Cuba many years ago, then a month later learned it had broken up in the air with the loss of 17 souls

 

They are tough birds but all are getting  old and maintainance heavy

Edited 20 hours ago by Red