Exploring a Tragic B-36 Bomber Aircraft Wreck Site | Explore With Norm
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- In this video, me and my friends hike up a hill to a tragic b-36 bomber crash site that occurred in 1953. RIP. Location: near Burgoynes Cove, Newfoundland.Feel free to like, comment, and subscribe for more RIN!!! #aircraft #history #explore
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My Grandfather Edwin Meader was one of the 23 airman that perished in this crash. My father has been searching for years. Thank you for sharing.
I am sorry for your loss. Even after all these years, I’m sure you still feel it. I know how you feel as I lost my marine father to cancer when I was little. God bless
Bullcrap....so many wannabe's on youtube that it is getting ridiculous at this point,. people claiming to be who theyre not and people desperate for some clout about anything and everything...
effing liar!
Sorry for your loss!
@@1Roamingwolflol keep coping
The B-36 was a huge aircraft, the wreckage must cover several acres. I hope all who visit this site treat it with the respect due a military grave site. Remember these crash victims on Memorial Day.
My mother's first husband died in this crash.
Was there in July 1956 with 6th St. John's Boy Scouts camping at Vardyville on Random Island. Lots of wreckage there then. Pilots wallet as picked up and brought back to the American Consulate on Kings Bridge Rd. Great to see this video.
Wow. Must have been quite the experience back then. Thanks for commenting.
@@randomislandnorm3043 Yes it was, did not own a camera then. Had steering wheel in my hand and no photo.
I visited the crash sight last week. The climb up takes about 45 minutes (I am 77 yrs old). Good shoes are required. Coming down the steep section of the trail is easier if you have a staff. The trail is up a dry stream bed. The locals (Air Cadets?) have made a bridge over a stream and built rest benches at intervals. They also cut off the trees that fall down over the trail. The wreck is still there with lots of small bits that have not been pilfered. I drove my car right up to the start of the trail. Any front wheel drive car can make it right to there.
How high up is it? It's hard to judge from the video.
@@truthseeker2321 The trail starts at an estimated 400 feet above sea level. The wreck is just below the peak, at about 800 feet above seal level. The climb up is fairly steep.
@@peelreg Thanks for the information!
This is the crash sight of the RB-36 that carried Brigadier General Richard Ellsworth returning from the Azores.
Later that summer, President Eisenhower traveled to Rapid City SD and dedicated the Air Force Base to General Ellsworth and it was renamed Ellsworth AFB. General Ellsworth was the 28th Bomb Wing commander.
Wow this was new to me. Unbelievable how much wreckage. R.I.P. crew.
It was an awful disaster. Sad that not very people outside the local area know about it.
it's a huge plane. 230 foot wingspan.
@@thomashogan7272 I've seen the one in Wright-Patterson museum. Awesome.
Yeah the B-36 was MASSIVE there are no words to explain you just have to see for yourself
General Ellsworth was my father's first cousin, born and raised in Erie, PA. I was with my dad when he received the phone call advising him of the death. I was ten at the time.
Thanks for Honoring their Service. May they all be with God. Thanks for the tour Norm.
Thanks for showing the info plaque at 3:22. I’m sure those who wrote it meant well, but it’s strangely incorrect. Yes this was a training mission from the Azores but did not “leave from the Canary Islands” - it was not “on course to the Maine coast to test North American defenses ” but was meant to cross the Newfoundland area and overfly Montreal to practice the crews wartime Soviet recon mission - the altitude intended was 1000 feet not 500 (were actually around 800) - navigation by “dead reckoning” was not a last resort but was intended, the problem being the pattern shifted and gave them a tailwind instead of headwind putting them 1 ½ hours ahead of estimated landfall (intention was to start climb to altitude 1/2 hour before this).
John Watson is right My Dad was on that plane, it happened 12 days after my 4th birthday It left my Mother and five children we were living at Rapid City A.F.B. Moved to Manchester, Iowa Edwin Meader was buried at Pine View cemetery in Delaware Iowa They say it took 3 days to cut a trail to reach the site also burned 600 acres
I’m sorry about your Dad. You probably have a copy of the AF accident report already - if not could help with this.
IT is fairly amazing how much wreckage is still up there today... Thanks!
Graffiti and carvings? Really? Some people have no decency, this plane is a tomb for 23 men. Give her the respect she and her crew deserve….
They should put up a sign at these sort of places "Would you like spray paint and graffiti on YOUR tombstone?"
when I was a kid in 1950 -1952 I remember these going over our school constantly they were based at Loring AFB in Limestone Maine, the school would vibrate
Very tragic. My cousin was a navigator on an A26 shot down over Laos in 1968. His remains and the pilot's remains were not recovered for many years. Thanks for this.
Very tragic indeed.
I'm sorry I couldn't give you a thumbs up for this video because you panned the camera way too fast when you came upon any thing of real interest. It may be partly because of my age, but I just couldn't follow all the movement. It would have been much better if you had lingered a little bit longer to provide a better view of what could have been a very interesting piece.
Most excellent job! Thank you for sharing!
Quite the site, thanks for sharing bud
Sad but hope we can get there some time to see it. Great Video!
Thanks Norm For Sharing Did Not Know About That Crash Jim From Cape Breton Again LOL If I Get To Newfoundland I Will Look You Up Thanks Pal ATB
Wow, that is so very cool, so much history there, great vid 👍🏻
I never new about that crash. Thanks for sharing!
Respectful, thank you
Good video. May those Airmen Rest In Peace ✝. Cold War Warriors.🪖
I miss home, I wants to come back so bad but I can't get outta Ontario, this place sucks lol.
Very cool Norm.
That’s sad, one of my all time favourite planes. Surprised it hasn’t been looted
It would be quite a hump trying to get one of those massive engines out of there.
Thanks Norm for sharing.
No prob! :)
Did you come across any of the rest of the fuseage? Just stunning.
My father flew on the RB-36 in 1954 out of Biggs Field, TX. He aircraft was the Reconnaissance type with extra crewmembers and equipment. I wonder if that one was the same model?
It was a B-36 Peacemaker.
The flying skyscraper.
There is a b36 crash site on the mid B.C. coast.
оу спасибо очень интересное путешествие
I have visited this site and there is much more to see than could be covered in this short video. I’m sorry now that I took only photos and no video.
I remember where I was on that date. A very long way away.
This B-36 crashed on the day I was born.....
Shocking that the US Govt. never removed that wreckage.
It’s probably there as a kind of museum of sorts there a signs and a monument
@@getcancer1542 The Canadian military built a beautiful memorial there. There used to be a video here on UA-cam about the crash on here. General Richard Ellsworth was aboard the plane. His oldest son was 13 at the time and had a paper route. When he got home, his mother was crying, and he found out that his father was dead. When they built the memorial, he was invited to the ceremony. Somehow it got lost in the mail and he received it exactly one year after it had gone out. He decided to go out there anyway, and he ended up buying a summer home there and would often go to the site and walk around it. I can't find the video now.
There are crash sites across the globe that still have American wreckage. Why should anyone worry about broken chunks of metal ?
that was not the norm back then, there are the remains of a b-52 that crashed on Elephant Mountain near Greenville Maine in the 60s I believe that was never recovered ,except for the bodies
Not Soldiers..., Air Men~!!!
hey Norman I was at the b 36 bomber crash today and rip to soldiers
the best part about that plane crash is across that ocean is Lower Lance Cove and if you have a pair of binoculars go to the wharf and you can see the monument from your binoculars.
That's interesting, Tyler. I didn't know that.
Higher elevation....lolz I can see the ocean in the background, dude your 150 200 feet above sea level 😅
Correction to below - checked the report again and the RB-36 was in fact north of the intended track and had meant to make landfall “on the Canadian mainland” which would have to mean Nova Scotia - which would have been a direct line to their practice target Montreal.
Is this a wreck that was found soon after the crash and did they recover the remains of all the Airman?
Adhs filming :D
Now that you found the plane I wanted reassembled I'll stop by in the morning to see how far you've gotten you're giving a box of sheetrock screws a hammer a tin snip and a screwdriver get to working
Easy! I'll have it done and up in running in 5 hours tops.
@@randomislandnorm3043 Good, I'll be over to inspect in a little while. When we come to this airplane repair facility we sets our minds to workin'! Seriously, how it going? Thanks, Bob Ordewald Staunton Virginia
As an A&P, we have that plane together in about 10 hours, but building a runway could take 30 years. LOL
The improbable we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.
CAVU
@@pilotsharkshanger9182 good response. My thought was 'We were out our spoon digging the road up here. So, building would be quick, finding a new spoon, THAT'S the tough part!
Camera work made me ill.. Couldn't watch.
What was the cause of the crash...
A change in weather conditions apparently.
A bad weather forecast caused this plane and others to be much farther north than they thought. They were on a low level mission with radio silence. Another from the mission clipped trees near St. John’s but did not crash.
Could we at least read the prop on the memorial?
Looking at that mess of wreckage, and how vast an area it covered makes me wonder why anyone would consider getting one of these beasts flyable again
Wow lot a of scavenger ppl in newfoundland. T he wreck only has a few fragments. Considering that the B-36 was larger than an office building
Since a lot of the main fuselage skin was magnesium, instead of aluminum, there's a good chance much of it went up in a flash after the crash and fire.
@@HootOwl513 the skin of the non pressurized compartments had much magnesium in the alloy. This material is also more sensitive for corrosion.
We were there today and it seems most or all of this plane is there. Lots of pieces scattered throughout a wide area, on open areas and in the woods.
I was thinking the same thing. You can tell that many pieces have been cut from the plane and that they were not broken off during the crash.
Im 100% sure that Michael J Fox would held the camera more stable. Why were you whipping it around like that?
Well, it's quite simple really. I just suck at filming.
@@randomislandnorm3043 Great answer...love it!👍🤣
Ordinance inventory desicrepancy
You are not doing a good enough job of waving the camera. Once in a while I can actually see something.
terrible video cam shooting, just terrible. you're supposed to draw out each shot for the viewer. what was the point of photographing this? and they weren't soldiers. they were u.s. airforce air crew, pilots, bombardier, flight engineer, radio operator, navigator, plus technicians. i guess i'll just have to go there and shoot a proper video.
please do and post a link in the comments so we can see it.
Too much movement