Welcome back everyone - today we are talking about plane wrecks.
On the very rare occurance of a plane crashing, the wreckage will be cleaned up out of sight
pretty quickly.
Sometimes though, for a number of different reasons - the twisted metal of a plane wreck
is left behind.
Why does this happen?
What do they look like?
Here are the 10 most famous examples, my name is Danny Burke, this is the top 10 Creepy
Plane Wreck Sites.
Starting off at number 10 we have Sol heim asandur.
Thats place on the South Coast of Iceland where a US Navy plane crashed in 1973.
It ran out of fuel and the pilot had to perform an emergency landing.
They later learnt the pilot had just switched to the wrong fuel tank.
Fortunately, everyone survived.
The fuselage of the plane is still there though - sitting on the black Icelandic sands.
Its a haunting site to see.
Officials have banned cars from driving to it because they keep getting stuck in sand.
However, if you fancy a 2 hour round trip hike in the freezing cold then this really
is a sight to see …
Next up at number 9 we have the Aruba.
Deep in the jungle on the Caribbean island of Curacao, lies the wreck of an Air Aruba
P4-YSA plane.
The mangled plane has been slowly swallowed by the jungle for years now.
Heres the strange thing about this wreck - nobody knows how it got there.
Youll see that with the rest of our list, most plane wrecks can be traced back to an
event or an owner.
With this plane though, there is still a lot of debate about where it came from, who owned
it and why it is now lying in the middle of the jungle.
Do you guys think theres a sinister story behind this one?
Next up at number 8 we have The Corsair.
In 1948, an American Vought F4U Corsair plane flew out on a routine mission from Pearl Harbor
- yes that Pearl Harbor but no, it was years after the war had ended.
Anyway, the plane suffered a fuel malfunction and the captain was forced to do a water landing.
He was able to safely sink the plane and was rescued shortly after.
The plane sunk to the bottom of the bay and suffered only minor damage.
Today, it sits 150ft under the water and has become a popular scuba diving attraction.
It takes divers about 15 minutes to get down there but the haunting site is supposed to
be worth it.
Starting off at number 7 now we have Lady B. Good.
This is the tragic story of the crew of Lady Be Good - the nickname for an American bombing
plane that crashed over Libya during WW2.
Officials assumed it had gone down in the Mediterranean Sea - however - 15 years later,
an oil survey in 1958 was taking aerial pictures over Libya when they saw the plane.
It was perfectly preserved in the hot desert sand - the radio and machine gun were still
working.
They searched for the crew but found nothing.
Then, 2 years later, they found the bodies across an area of the desert.
Among the items found was the diary of co-pilot Robert Toner which told the story of the end
of their lives.
The 9 men had bailed out before crash, 8 of them survived.
They walked 85 miles before 5 gave up and 3 continued to walk until they died.
Moving on to number 6 we have UTA Flight 772.
In 1989, this plane went down in the Sahara Desert on its way from the Republic of Congo
to Paris.
All 170 people on board were killed.
It was later found that a bomb was the cause of the tragedy.
The Sahara Desert is a vast, remote places and many of the pieces of the plane simply
couldnt be recovered.
So, there they lay, even today, in the hot Saharan sands.
Its difficult to get to in person but it is visible on Google Earth as you can see here.
Imagine just stumbling across this by accident on Google Earth after scrolling through hundreds
of miles of sand - you just see a mysterious plane memorial …
Next up at number 5 we have The Mystery Wreck.
Thats the name that has been given to a strange twisted piece of metal suspended in a tree.
It was found by locals near Heritage Park in British Columbia Canada.
It appears to be the the cockpit roof and possibly a wing of a single seat airplane.
After being examined, it was concluded the plane dates back to 1971.
All of this raises questions: what happened to this plane?
Who owned it?
Why has it not been cleaned up yet despite being public knowledge?
The Mystery Wreck has really earned its name.
Next up at number 4 we have the B-24 Bomber.
During WW2, A B-24 Bomber crashed into a boulder field at Humprehys Peak - the highest point
in Arizona - killing 8 of the crew on board.
Because of its remoteness - the wreck is still there, exactly as the pieces fell almost 75
years ago.
However, because of its remoteness, its also very inaccessible.
If you do want to see this shattered, creepy WW2 plane, it takes a 7 hour hike up to an
elevation of 11,300 ft - definitely worth it for some though.
At number 3 now we have Flight 260.
This plane took off from Albuquerque airport in 1955 - 10 minutes later it had crashed
into Sandia Peak, killing the 13 passengers 3 crew on board.
It was later determined that that a failure of the navigational instruments were to blame.
The bodies were removed but the wreckage remains.
A small sign commemorates the event in the ravine where the wreckage lies.
Its become a little bit of a tourist attraction, albeit a morbid one.
Visitors can take a 3 and a half mile hike through the woods to get to it or go on the
cable car which passes right over the wreckage …
Next up at number 2 we have The Wellington Bomber.
In a remote valley in Southern France lies a Wellington Bomber from the Royal Air Force
that crashed there in 1944.
The 4 British crew members burned alive - even their ID tags had melted - truly gruesome
stuff.
These days, the valley has a memorial to the crashed bomber.
Bits of charred steel, old cloth and rusted bullet casings are all that remains - along
with a plaque to remember the crew that died …
And finally at number 1 we have Atka.
The remote Alaskan island of Atka looks like something out of a movie.
Among the rolling grass hills lies a site to behold: an American B-24 Bomber.
They went down during a routine weather reporting mission.
They were brought down by bad weather - so I guess that was quite an easy report for
them.
Thankfully all of them survived which means I don't feel too bad about saying that.
The plane si8ts there to this day - surrounded by grass and noticeable from miles away.
Its actually been on the National Register of Historic Planes since 1979.
Fact.
Allllllright we have safely landed at the end of the video.
Which one of those was your favourite?
Have you ever visited wreckage before, how did that make you feel?
Some people find it creepy, others find it interesting - what do you think?
Thank you as always for watching Most Amazing Top 10, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see
you all in the next video.