“This plane was never heard from again. It just disappeared.”, explained Clayton Kuhles, an American adventurer who led the mission after a request from the son of one of the victims of the accident.
The expedition lasted months as Kuhles and a team of local guides crossed chest-deep rivers and camped in frigid temperatures. Three guides died of hypothermia at the beginning of the mission during a snow storm.
The team finally found the plane on a snowy mountain last month, and was able to identify the fuselage by the number on the plane’s tail. In the ship there were no human remains of those who were present at that time.
Bill Scherer, the orphaned son who commissioned the mission, said he was “delighted just to know where” his father is. “It’s sad, but happy,” he said in an email to AFP from New York.
“I grew up without a father. All I think about is my poor mother, receiving a telegram and discovering that my father is missing and she has stayed with me, a 13-month-old baby,” he added.
Hundreds of us military aircraft disappeared in operations in India, China and Burma during World War II, either due to attacks by Japanese forces or due to weather conditions.
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