Better view of one of the engines.
This is the right wing with it's landing gear.
This is the remains of the left wing and it too has it's landing gear. This is important because the left wing that's on the slope across from the tail section has it's landing gear. For sure that wing is not from this plane.
An over view of the crash site. Now, I think most people would think that this plane is #158364 becuse the tail and wing are together and the tail is marked #158379 (remember landing gears). But I think the tail belongs to this wreckage. In the past I spent a few hours at this site looking for any sign of a tail section in this wreckage with no luck. (More clues to follow.)
As we started hiking on, we found a piece of the nose gear up on the slope.
Closer view of the piece from the nose gear. The wheel bearings are still on the axle.
Tom is leading us to the crash site of a F-4 he found about ten years ago while he was searching for an A-7 site. That's when he first found the wreackage of the sites we just visited.
Tom has good eyes, when I saw this it looked like a pile of old sticks to me. He saw it for what it is which is the remains of an old wagon wheel. The sticks are the spokes, one has a section of the wheel on it.
Tom hasn't been to this site since he first found it. I was wondering if he could find it again.
Tom was up ahead out of sight when Doug, Mike and myself came up on the first piece of wreckage. We are close!!! I been wanting to see this site ever since Tom told me about it a couple of years ago.
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