She was found about fifty years after the crash.
The wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Swiss Alps in 1968 was discovered on Thursday on the Aletsch Glacier in the southwest of the canton of Wallis, near the peaks of Jungfrau and Monch.
“Investigations have determined that the parts are from the wreckage of a Piper Cherokee, registration HB-OYL, which crashed at this location on June 30, 1968. Recovery work will be undertaken as soon as possible,” police said in a statement.
54 years after the crash: The wreckage of a Piper resurfaces from the Aletsch glacier https://t.co/EYio3Qlpkk
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Found by a mountain guide
The regional newspaper
24 Heures
specifies that on board were a teacher, a chief doctor and his son, all from Zurich.
Their bodies had been found at the time, but not the wreckage.
“At the time of the accident (…), the technical means to recover a plane wreck in difficult terrain were limited”, specifies the police.
Our Swiss colleagues indicate that it was a high mountain guide who discovered the wreckage during an expedition in the sector.
Due to climate change and the melting of the glacier, the route has changed and now passes where the plane pieces were found.
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