{"id":57426,"date":"2024-10-13T23:29:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T21:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57426"},"modified":"2024-10-19T22:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T20:12:48","slug":"a-march-to-a-spanish-mountain-where-a-united-states-navy-plane-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/10\/13\/a-march-to-a-spanish-mountain-where-a-united-states-navy-plane-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"A march to a Spanish mountain where a United States Navy plane crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 8, 1960, a United States Navy plane suffered a serious accident on a mountain 12 km from J\u00e9rez del Marquesado.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/04\/sierra-bermeja-the-remains-of-a-1998-plane-crash-in-a-place-that-is-difficult-to-access\/\">Sierra Bermeja: the remains of a 1998 plane crash in a place that is difficult to access<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/05\/moncayo-an-airplane-graveyard-in-a-spanish-mountain-at-more-than-2000-meters\/\">Moncayo: an airplane graveyard in a Spanish mountain at more than 2,000 meters<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The crashed plane was a Douglas R5D-3 Skymaster,<\/strong> the name given to the DC-4s used by the US Navy and Coast Guard. <strong>The plane had taken off from Naples, Italy, bound for Rota Naval Base in Spain.<\/strong> The plane, with serial number 56521, MSN 10835 and christened with the Spanish name \"Ciudad de Madrid\", <strong>encountered a snowstorm that caused it to lose altitude until it crashed into a thick layer of snow on the slopes of Pic\u00f3n de J\u00e9rez,<\/strong> at an altitude of 2,600 meters, in the Chorreras Negras area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54064578121_201af805af_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Douglas R5D-3 56521 at the crash site (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baaa-acro.com\/crash\/crash-douglas-r5d-3-near-jerez-del-marquesado\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>The pilot's skill prevented any deaths among the 24 occupants of the plane<\/strong> (4 crew members and 20 passengers), making it a unique case among high-mountain air accidents. The 24 occupants of the plane were <strong>rescued by civilians from J\u00e9rez del Marquesado (Granada) and members of the Spanish Armed Forces<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54063711907_730aa19396_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The crashed American plane was nicknamed \"Ciudad de Madrid\" in Spanish (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baaa-acro.com\/crash\/crash-douglas-r5d-3-near-jerez-del-marquesado\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>This Sunday, the always interesting channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (which I recommend you subscribe to if you like urban exploration, mountain tourism and bivouacs) <strong>has published a video of a walk from J\u00e9rez del Marquesado to the R5D-3 crash site<\/strong>, with a group of mountaineers led by the indefatigable Alfred, who has a good fan club here (the video is in Spanish, you can activate the automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vivac el Avi\u00f3n - La Sociedad de la Nieve Espa\u00f1ola.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpfGn7_-Uo8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some screenshots from this video here, as a preview. <strong>The route begins with a visit to the old Santa Constanza copper mine<\/strong> and the mining town that was close to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54064836008_c2effc2f7a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The video shows some beautiful landscapes in this area.<\/strong> In it we can see the Morales hydroelectric power station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54063711862_1782934fbd_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The mountaineers make a stop at the El Hornillo refuge.<\/strong> If you plan to spend the night at this site, I strongly recommend that you watch the video first, so you don't get a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54064900964_0601e6dfc3_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The hikers spent the night next to the fabulous Postero Alto mountain refuge<\/strong>, a few days before its reopening after a renovation process. The site looks excellent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54064835988_101aa30734_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 8, 1960, a United States Navy plane suffered a serious accident on a mountain 12 km from J\u00e9rez del Marquesado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16882,11549],"tags":[16673,22876,21512,22873,1025,22875,22874,15047,11462,319],"class_list":["post-57426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-forests-and-mountains","category-military-history","tag-andalusia","tag-chorreras-negras","tag-douglas-dc-4","tag-douglas-r5d-3-skymaster","tag-granada","tag-jerez-del-marquesado","tag-picon-de-jerez","tag-sierra-nevada","tag-spain","tag-us-navy"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 07:07:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}