I used to hike to various plane crash sites - much as you would visit war graves - and they often took me through country I would not have seen otherwise.
Hike to an Air Disaster
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There are a few aircraft wrecks on Kinder Scout and it has taken years for me to finally go and look at some. It gave a good reason to wander the hills and researching what had happened. I don't find this ghoulish, basically it is history now.
Riven
Riven
I think that's the one I saw on Bleaklow, it had a very distinctive engine ( which you can see in the photo). It's a great view!
Its a B24 Liberator on Mill Hill near Ashop Edge that crashed on 11/10/1944 according to my 'Dark Peak Aircraft Wreck Walks' by John N. Merrill.
Well worth buying as to find some of the wrecks, which are easily missed in the groughs can be difficult.
Well worth buying as to find some of the wrecks, which are easily missed in the groughs can be difficult.
As much as I don't like the way the mountains are becoming littered with plaques, memorials an benches to every Tom, Dick & Harriet that once stepped outdoors (Places like Ben Nevis are becoming cluttered). The site your talking about is a memorial to service personnel who died while on duty (though a training flight) and the taking away of personal offerings to the site for personal gain for a collection doesn't sit well with me. There's even been cases of items from that site turning up for sale on Ebay which I find pretty abhorrent. Visit it by all means but taking offerings is the same as stealing flowers from a graveyard in my opinion.
Yes, that is what I meant as in bring a cross or flowers or something like that, I'd never take anything from the wreck site as it seems to me to be no different from grave robbing
