Mountaineering team locates the wreckage of a plane that was lost 54-years ago

#andes #plane #chile #santiago #dc3 #wreckage A mountaineering team led by Leonardo Albornoz of Chile has located the wreckage of an aircraft that was lost 54 years ago in the Chilean Andes – the wreckage was at an altitude of 10,500 feet and about 215 miles south of Chile’s capital, Santiago. This has been reported in foxnews.com dated 10 February 2015.
Albornoz has not divulged the exact location of the site to prevent looting.
As per reports, the expedition found scattered debris and bones, and could see much of the plane’s fuselage without having to dig it out. It seems the wreckage was at a different location that what was shown in official publications. The crash had killed 24 people, including eight members of the Green Cross soccer team from Chile's top division. The Green Cross crash occurred on April 3 1961 and the plane was a Douglas DC-3. It was carrying members of the team and it went missing, sending shockwaves through the world of sport.
The players were returning to Santiago after playing a Copa de Chile game in the southern Chilean city of Osorno. The crash occurred just three years after the Munich air disaster in which 23 people were killed, including eight players and three staff members from English soccer powerhouse Manchester United.
In 1949, there was another air disaster - 31 people, including the entire Torino soccer team, died when their plane crashed into the retaining wall of the Basilica of Superga in Turin, Italy.