Ghostly Plane Wrecks Found in Remote, Exotic Locations

[kimberlyanne546]

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/04/finding-beauty-in-wrecked-and-rotting-airplanes/#slideid-19886


Dietmar Eckell has traveled the world in pursuit of ruin. His portfolio is filled with mystifyingly beautiful pictures of abandoned buildings, forgotten military sites and decomposing cars. For his newest project, he tracked down 15 rotting airplane carcasses left over from crash sites where there were no fatalities and everyone was rescued.

“We hear enough about air disasters in the news so I didn’t feel the need to dramatize that in my photography,” he says. “Instead I wanted to give the viewer a positive ‘wow’ effect.”

 

[noobJohn]

Some are interesting but I can't help but wonder what's the story behind each one.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Nice photos. Though Canadian wrecks seem to predominate.

 

[Dan Thomas]

Abandoned wrecks are more likely in sparsely populated areas, and Canada has lots of those.


Sometimes these airplanes are lost for some time, sometimes many years, before someone stumbles upon them. An interesting one, not far from here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Canada_Air_Lines_Flight_810

Dan

 

[brcase]

http://www.secesh.net/B23.htm

This one is our reasonably local one, I 1st visited it in 1984. It was lot more intact and a lot less well known then. At the time most people thought it was a B-24 and very few people had visited the site. It actually took me a couple years before I found a photo of a B-23 to identify what it really was. A few years ago the Air Force Museum removed some of the major parts (bulkheads) for patterns for the B23 they are restoring. The snow has since collapsed what was a pretty much intact fuselage.

Brian

 

[stratobee]

That one by the shoreline is a pretty rare Bristol Freighter. They used to run quite a few of them in Canada supporting the drilling and mining business. That particular one landed on the ice, one gear broke through so they towed it to shore and stripped it of parts for the others. Think the last ones were in service until the mid 90's before they got scrapped or sold. Today there's one in New Zealand left that's being restored, but other than that I know of no other still flying. Believe it or not, they used to ferry cars over the English channel from Lydd airport to Le Touquet in France in them.

You can see one of the Canadian bush Freighters takeoff in these clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iza0UrW2ca0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q145LfAp3iQ

Bristol Freighter used as car ferry over the English channel.

 

[trackersocha]

that's pretty cool. looks like the one over the lake was put there