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http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... 475#409475
It was in the Andes . . .
Horizon did a programme on it, the transcript is here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/20 ... shed.shtml
Quote:
On August 2nd 1947, a British civilian version of the wartime Lancaster bomber took off from Buenos Aires airport on a scheduled flight to Santiago. There were 5 crew and 6 passengers on board the plane - named "Stardust". But Stardust never made it to Santiago. Instead it vanished when it was apparently just a few minutes from touchdown. One final strange morse code radio message - "STENDEC" - was sent, but after that nothing more was heard from the plane.
I'm reviving this little mystery as it featured in
10 Things You Didn't Know About... - 3. Avalanches
Iain Stewart travels across mountain ranges and glaciers to reveal ten remarkable stories about avalanches.
Over a million avalanches happen throughout the world each year, and yet we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the chaotic turbulence inside an avalanche. Scientists have had to put themselves right inside a raging avalanche to find out more.
Stewart shows how the deadliest avalanche in history killed 18,000 people in three minutes; how Hannibal's army was devastated by avalanches as he crossed the Alps to fight Rome; why an avalanche was key to one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time; and how global warming may increase the rate of ice avalanches in the future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... valanches/
It seems the plane crashed into the mountains and triggered an avalache that covered it, hence none of the search planes spotted it. For 53 years the wreckage moved down the mountain concealed in a glacier.
However, the word 'Stendec' is still a mystery!
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... 475#409475
It was in the Andes . . .
Horizon did a programme on it, the transcript is here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/20 ... shed.shtml
Quote:
On August 2nd 1947, a British civilian version of the wartime Lancaster bomber took off from Buenos Aires airport on a scheduled flight to Santiago. There were 5 crew and 6 passengers on board the plane - named "Stardust". But Stardust never made it to Santiago. Instead it vanished when it was apparently just a few minutes from touchdown. One final strange morse code radio message - "STENDEC" - was sent, but after that nothing more was heard from the plane.
I'm reviving this little mystery as it featured in
10 Things You Didn't Know About... - 3. Avalanches
Iain Stewart travels across mountain ranges and glaciers to reveal ten remarkable stories about avalanches.
Over a million avalanches happen throughout the world each year, and yet we know more about the surface of the moon than we do about the chaotic turbulence inside an avalanche. Scientists have had to put themselves right inside a raging avalanche to find out more.
Stewart shows how the deadliest avalanche in history killed 18,000 people in three minutes; how Hannibal's army was devastated by avalanches as he crossed the Alps to fight Rome; why an avalanche was key to one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time; and how global warming may increase the rate of ice avalanches in the future.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... valanches/
It seems the plane crashed into the mountains and triggered an avalache that covered it, hence none of the search planes spotted it. For 53 years the wreckage moved down the mountain concealed in a glacier.
However, the word 'Stendec' is still a mystery!