[selleri]

Here is the map that search parties were given, the red cross is about were the plane was last seen and I recently added the green one were it was found yesterday. Red dot is our airfield.


By now we knew that we would need to dispatch people on land to get to the remains and about 1800 hours six brave lads ventured into the lava field ready to face what ever lay ahead and any polar bears or other creatures, well not really but people have been a bit paranoid since two polar bears ventured inland last month, and lot of erroneous reports have been made.

The first obstacle was were we parked


After an hour walk(this was to cover 1 mile) we saw something white, we thought about calling the emergency services and report a polar bear but foolishly proceeded as this was close to the location found from the air.






Almost like it had been put down there. Hardly any damage to it, a little bit under the right wing and a broken prop.




Leatherman was put to good use.


After disassembling the plane we headed back. One of the many reasons it took us an hour to walk 1 mile and not the worst part of the way.


Happy explorers on the "parking lot". In direct line the plane ended up 3.1 miles(5 km) from the airfield.


But what could have caused the plane to venture into the realms of fail-safe??? If you know the 900 RX you might be able to see it in this picture!


No? Well then this should give you a clue!



Indeed, the crystal decided to leave the party and go on its own down to the basement...
Of course the RX wasn't to thrilled so he decided to hold everything and fly around hoping that the crystal would return to the party. As you've seen above that didn't happen.

Few more pictures can be seen here.

Thanks to the many that assisted us in the search

PS
I wonder if I should ask the owner to buy a lottery ticket for me.