I don’t want to seem goulish, but a lot of planes must of been lost in the Sierra’s during World War Two. Every other year there is another “iceman” found in the mountains. In some cases its a mystery that lasts years. But luckily they find some identification and or they can track it via plane position or type.
Fresno, California Hikers have discovered the remains of a man believed to be a missing World War II airman atop a Sierra Nevada glacier.
Authorities say the human remains were found in a high alpine region of Kings Canyon National Park on Wednesday. They were located about 100 feet from where climbers spotted the ice-entombed body of another World War II-era airman in October of 2005.
The Fresno County Coroner’s Office is overseeing the retrieval of the remains, which are scheduled to arrive in Fresno tonight.
Military anthropologists will analyze the body, which they believe could correspond to one of three men flying with Mustonen when their AT-7 navigational plane disappeared after takeoff from a Sacramento airfield on Nov. 18th, 1942.
A blizzard is believed to have caused the crash that killed Mustonen, pilot William Gamber and aviation Cadets John Mortenson and Ernest Munn.
[CBS2]
The positive in this story is that another family (what’s left of one) gets closure.
EDIT: In looking at KTVU’s coverage, It looks like this was a second person in the same plane that they found a body from 2 years ago, or at least they are assuming. Read the story from KTVU for a pretty good summary, plus they have a news clip which shows the site.
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