[meteorite-list] American Meteorite Museum and Quiz

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <624814.43648.qm_at_web113615.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi Paul.

>From what I can tell the crash actually happened in 1964. Here is a report of the accident:

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=69872

I haven't noticed it on my visits, but supposedly part of the tail is still in the crater somewhere.

The actual NSTB report is much more dry and succinct:
http://www3.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=79450&key=0

A MUCH more detailed and interesting account of the event can be found in Jim Tobin's "Fragments", including pictures(!), in the September 2008 Meteorite Times

http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2008/september/Jims_Fragments.htm

I would assume that the majority of the airframe was either airlifted out, or packed out in pieces. Maybe Jim can tell us more about the final disposition.

Nice pics BTW.

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Thu, 3/24/11, valparint at aol.com <valparint at aol.com> wrote:
> From: valparint at aol.com <valparint at aol.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] American Meteorite Museum and Quiz
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 5:02 AM
> I took a trip to northern Arizona
> about a week ago and visited Meteor Crater. I stopped by the
> American Meteorite Museum and took a few pictures, which I
> posted here:
> 
> http://s1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa463/pas520/
> 
> Then, it was off the Meteor Crater. They've made a lot of
> improvements since I was last there. It's a very nice
> facility.
> 
> Here's the quiz - sometime around 2003 a small plane
> crashed at the bottom of the crater but it is now gone. What
> happened to it?
> 
> Paul Swartz
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