I’ve come across old airplane wreckage in the mountains of the west. The debris makes for a pretty small area. Remarkably, airplane materials are of such high quality that there is usually very little rust, to none. I came across an F4 Phantom in SoCal mtns that has been there for about 50 yrs.
In the thick trees of the NW, i could see a plane being gone forever for sure. It’s so dense with brush that it simply devours anything. Lots of hikers in the Central Cascades only stepped off the PCT trail for a mere few yards...gone.
Wow. That is a scary story - getting lost just a few yard from the trail!
Did you get the number off the F-4 just in case?
“In the thick trees of the NW, i could see a plane being gone forever for sure.”
The Yukon is not the Pacific NW, it is sub-arctic tundra covered with scrawny black spruce trees and brush. You’d have to tie 5 or more black spruce together to make a Christmas tree. No, that plane is either part of a glacier or at the bottom of a lake.
I recall that Dean Martin’s son, Dino, was a captain in the CA Air National Guard who died when the F4 Phantom he was flying crashed. That was in 1987, here is a very good news article about it:
https://apnews.com/f457b4466908b595369e07968679fbb0
I think the only reason they found the wreckage of Steve Fossett was a hiker found his identification about a year after the crash. He disappeared on Labor Day 2007..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett