After 54 years, airplane found...

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Not really. News services are having a great time with this, a DC-3 that crashed in the Andes in 1961.

After 54 years, mountaineers find wreckage of plane crash that killed soccer stars

The discovery of twisted pieces of aircraft fuselage high in the Chilean Andes has apparently ended a 54-year aviation and sporting mystery.

Mountaineers say that they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed more than half a century ago, killing 24 people, including eight members of the Green Cross soccer team from Chile's top division.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015...lane-crash-that-killed-chilean-soccer-stars/#

Problem is that the crash site was located seven days after it happened.

LAN Flight 210 was on the last leg of the Castro/Chiloe - Puerto Montt - Temuco - Santiago following Airway 45 or 40 south at an altitude of 8500 feet. Estimated flying time was 2 hours and 30 minutes. At 23:45 GMT (1 hour and 15 minutes after takeoff) the crew requested clearance to descend to a lower altitude due to icing conditions.

Santiago Control didn't authorize the descent because of conflicting traffic (LAN flight 205) on Airway 4. Santiago later cleared the flight to turn back on Airway 45 and then descend to 6500 feet on the same Airway, pass over Curico and to continue on Airway 40 south at the Santo Domingo beacon.

There was no more radio contact with the flight; the wreckage was found on April 10.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19610403-0