Plane wreck

[olyclimber]

Did anyone see the video footage of that that plane wreck in Afghanistan? It sort of reminded me of that movie/book "Alive"....but I don't think anyone survived this one. I saw a shot of just a plane tail on a snowy ridge top (at about 11,000 ft).

[Thinker]

Sounds like they need Mike Layton to coordinate the suffer-fest and guide them in there.

 

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On Sunday, NATO said its helicopters ferried Slovenian mountain rescue teams to the site, some 11,000 feet up Chaperi Mountain, but by late afternoon had failed to land.

 

"The conditions were very, very poor," said alliance spokeswoman Maj. Karen Tissot Van Patot. Planes and ground troops would try again early Monday, she said, adding that troops consulted local Afghans "to see if we can find a back trail."

 

An Associated Press photographer and a dozen Afghan intelligence service agents failed with that approach Sunday.

 

Boi Khan, the bearded 50-year-old guide, said he knew the mountain well from his boyhood and hunting trips. He told the exhausted party they would die if they did not turn around after six hours of slogging on foot through the deep snow.

 

"It was too dangerous. We had no food or heat," said Khan, emptying the snow from his rubber boots on his return. "But we were less than two hours away and I'm willing to try again."