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Melting ice reveals plane remains disappeared half century ago… What happened?
An unprecedented melting of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has revealed long-buried objects, as red and silver remnants emerged among the ice, turning out to be flying.
Video footage filmed by helicopter over a side of the Alps located in Switzerland showed the actual activity of climate change on Earth, as the footage revealed the receding of the ice in frozen rivers here, as the rocky sides that were covered with ice for more than two thousand years appeared, according to a report by the network. Britain’s Sky News on Sunday.
This plane remained hidden for more than half a century, before reappearing without warning, when the ice melted in some areas of the Alps in early August, when the European continent was exposed to an unprecedented heat wave.
This was a Pepper Cherokee plane that crashed in 1968 in the Aletsch glacier in Switzerland.
Dominic Nelen, the Swiss guide who accompanied the Sky News team, believes that the wreckage was initially just the remains of a backpack, but when he approached it, it was confirmed that it belonged to a plane.
He tells the beginning of the story of finding the wreckage, as he noticed that a plane protrudes among the snow, and says: “In the beginning, I saw the wings here, and I saw the seats there and a box of glasses,” as well as other luggage scattered there and there.
Swiss police said they had recovered the remains of three people on board the plane, but said they did not have the ability to remove the wreckage from this mountainous area.
In recent months, Swiss authorities have found two separate sets of human remains of hikers who died while crossing the glaciers here.
The appearance of the wreckage and remains decades after being buried under the snow is evidence of the significant impact of climate change.
“The glaciers are disappearing, and they say that if it stays the same by 2090, only 10 of them will remain,” says Dominic.
Switzerland has 1,400 glaciers, which have already lost half of their total volume in less than a century, and this is putting pressure on water resources at a time when the country and Europe are facing a drought.
