Same part turned over. The NTSB report stated that this L-39 was equipped with ejection seats, but the activation mechanism had been rendered inoperable. Made me wonder if they were working if the guys would have had a chance to use them.
Pieces of the canopy frame.
Close up of one of a frames. Didn't take us long to figure out that just about everything in this area was from the nose section of the aircraft.
Tom found what looked like to us as a piece of a flight suit. Things like this make you stop and think that this is more than just a pile of aircraft wreckage.
Climbing out of the wash we came upon a memorial to the pilots who lost their lives here.
Once out of the wash, we could see wreckage scattered off to the west and started following it. This pressure bottle was the first interesting thing I found.
It had funny looking writing on it. The L-39's were manufactured in Czechoslovakia as jet trainers. About 150 L-39's are in civilian hands in United States.
One of the air brakes.
Close by was the other one.
Looking up it was hard to believe what I was seeing. There was a lot of large sections of the L-39 on the slope up ahead. Getting closer could make out the wing and engine along some other large pieces.
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