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Tragedy on the Mountain
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34 years ago (6/18/72) a small plane (Piper) crashed into the eastern slope of Mt Belknap a few hundred yds below the summit. It landed on a steep, heavily wooded slope - the plane disintegrated and the pilot was killed. The plane's remains still lie on the slope - a crude, steep path leads from the summit to the crash site (about .1 mi long). This photo doesn't do justice to the real steepness and extremely rocky roughness of the crash site - it is part of an old rockfall, now covered with trees that have grown up through the rubble. You can see part of the plane wreck near the center of the photo, some distance below the spot from which the photo was taken. Mysteriously, the plane wasn't discovered until 6/3/73, a year later - one wonders what took so long.
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