Recently, a military transport plane that disappeared during World War II was found at an altitude of 13,000 feet (about 3,962 meters) in the remote Himalayas. Nearly 80 years ago, the plane mysteriously disappeared and crashed, and no one survived. However, it is puzzling to the outside world that no human remains have been found in the wreckage of the aircraft that was found.
Aircraft wreckage
On January 6, the first week of 1945, the C-46 transport plane carrying 13 people (4 crew members and 9 passengers) took off from Kunming in southern China, and then disappeared due to a storm in the skies over a mountainous area. The plane reportedly disappeared due to bad weather on its way back from unloading supplies from Kunming.
American adventurer Clayton Cullers said that "the plane was never heard again." Clayton Koollers led the search at the request of Bill Scherer, the son of one of the passengers on the crashed plane. Bill Scherer sought Kullers' help in determining the location of the plane's wreckage. Bill Scherer said, "For decades, we have been eagerly waiting for the body to be found. ”
In the early stages of the project, three tour guides died of hypothermia while camping in a snowstorm in September. But last month, the team finally stumbled upon the wreckage of the plane on a snow-covered mountaintop, where they were able to identify the transport plane by its tail number. However, it is puzzling that there are no remains of anyone on board this crashed C-46 transport aircraft. However, Lisu hunters reported seeing human remains in the wreckage last summer and that families can now request the U.S. government to retrieve the remains.
Clayton Cullers and hunters from the Lisu tribe braved heavy snow for 8 days to find the wreckage of the plane at an altitude of 13,000 feet. Clayton Koollers said, "It was an extremely difficult expedition... In some places, the river is deep and chest-deep, and it is very dangerous to cross the river with a heavy backpack. When it started snowing, my Lisu team members wanted to escape the downhill. ”
The crew and passengers on board the plane included: Second Lieutenant Sydney L. Murphy; Second Lieutenant Delma K. Brown (co-pilot); Alvin P. Brown. Corporal Palecek (radio operator); Manning Edmund M. T. Murphy (flight clerk) and Lieutenant William K. Scheler; Second Lieutenant Carl D. Moyes, Sergeant Raymond F. Brenner, Sergeant J.V. Dalton, Sergeant Kenneth Hart, etc.
Clayton Cullers' mission was commanded and requested by Bill Scherer, whose officer father was on the plane when it crashed. Bill Scherer told the outside world via email in New York, "All I can say is I'm so happy because I know where he is." It's sad, but also very happy, and I grew up without my father. All I could think of was my poor mother, who received a telegram to find her husband missing and she was with me, a 13-month-old baby boy. ”
Agence France-Presse said hundreds of U.S. military planes went missing near war zones in India, China and Myanmar during World War II. While Japanese artillery fire did cause some aircraft damage, Koollers said most of the planes are believed to have crashed due to ice and snow damage, hurricanes and other adverse weather conditions.