You Can Hike To A 1950s Plane Wreck In Alaska's Talkeetna Mountains • Discoverology

You Can Hike To A 1950s Plane Wreck In Alaska’s Talkeetna Mountains

The Bomber Glacier is aptly named. It comes from the wreckage of a TB-29 Superfortress that crashed on the glacier at the end of a training mission in 1957, killing six of the 10 crewmembers. The airplane, strewn across the ice, has sat where it touched down for more than 60 years ago.

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