Alaska is a place with spectacular landscapes and a very rugged orography. An ideal place for lovers of hiking and mountaineering.<\/p>\n
Plus, there's a place in Alaska that may pique the interest of aviation fans. It is popularly known as the Bomber Glacier, because a Boeing TB-29 Superfortress training plane crashed there<\/strong> on November 15, 1957. The plane was a derivative of the famous bomber model that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II. His registration number was 44-70039<\/a>, and it belonged to the 5040th Radar Evaluation Squadron of the United States Air Force<\/strong>, based at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage.<\/p>\n The plane had 10 crew members on board and was doing a radar calibration training mission. Due to bad weather, the plane was diverted from its route and ended up crashing on an unnamed glacier in the Talkeetna Mountains<\/strong>, in southern Alaska, at an elevation of 1,700 meters. As a result of the accident, six of the crew died<\/strong>, and the other four were injured. At present the remains of the plane are still there, due to the difficulty of removing them from such a remote place. Last summer, the channel Outdoor Boys<\/a> posted a video in which a mountaineer climbs the glacier in search of the remains of that crashed plane:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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