Heatwave thaws Swiss glacier, uncovering a crashed war plane hidden for 72 years

[ignhelper]

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/heatwave-thaws-swiss-glacier-uncovering-a-crashed-war-plane-hidden-for-72-years

Source with actual images:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062257/WWII-Dakota-plane-crash-landed-Switzerland-72-years-ago-uncovered-glacier-melts.html

Newsreel of rescue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J5sW2M8K6g&ab_channel=BritishPath%C3%A9

[Grenadiac]

What happened to it? The period photos of it show it in reasonably good condition.

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/15/16/4F114BE500000578-6062257-When_flying_over_the_Tyrolean_city_of_Innsbruck_the_pilots_were_-a-72_1534347092958.jpg

How did that turn into this?

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/15/16/4F1D257A00000578-6062257-image-a-77_1534347575733.jpg

[cliff2]

Look what happens to rock that glaciers sit on. Ice tends to move quite a bit as it starts thawing and refreezing. The sheer pressure of the glacier pressing against it during those periods over the years probably did quite a lot of damage.

[ignhelper]

Glaciers probably chewed it up

[Grenadiac]

That was my first thought, but it's an awfully short period of time and several other aircraft have been recovered from glaciers, notably the P-38 Glacier Girl which sank over 200 feet into a glacier and is currently flying today.

https://www.sensoft.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/glacier-gilr.jpg