RIP. It’s one thing to do adventure travel. It’s quite another to do it without adequate preparation.
Sounds like this was exposure, but when I was in Iceland a few years ago our guide pointed out a tiny road that led to an out of the way tourist attraction (maybe this one) and said the local farmers were getting really pissed they kept having to haul out tourists in rental cars going where they shouldn’t and getting stuck.
Looks like a DC-3. Also looks like it just landed there, not like it crashed.
Remember that B-29 that had a forced landing in Greenland during WW2?
A bunch of guys fixed it and when they were ground testing it the APU jerked loose, spilled fuel and that beautiful plane burned to a crisp. There was a PBS Show about it years ago. All that hard work wasted.
I guess they were just dying to get a glimpse.
Chinese nationals?
DC-3?
U.S. has/had a military base near Keflavik. Were they OPENLY spying back then, like they are today (at Key West).
Never mind.
US plane. Chinese tourists. Shoulda read closer!
:-/
“Two Chinese nationals in their early 20s have been found dead at the site of a 1973 plane crash in southern Iceland.”
I was surprised to learn that officials knew where this plane was for so many years but just now have found two bodies.
(Seriously, that is what I thought until much later in the article!)
I would not bring this up if the article was not from the snooty BBC but use of the word “by” in this sentence does not seem correct. I may be wrong since I am just an illiterate old Tennessee boy but would “next to” or “at” have been more appropriate? As it is it led me to think that the poor guy was killed by the crash site.
Bad headline...it sounds like the 1973 Plane crash found two dead Chinese tourists...
I’m beginning to wonder whether there is really very little for a tourist to do in Iceland.