Great and unique content! Thank you for this video.

All 6 persons on the CIA flight training mission in the SA-16 Albatross were able to parachute out and survived the incident according to Death Valley web site pages on the crash.

The white wire with the insulators is an antenna that’s mounted on the outside skin of the aircraft. The yellow box is part of the avionics (ie. aircraft electronics). Looks like maybe a transmitter as it has two ceramic insulated posts on one end. Quite possibly an emergency survival type radio as I recall seeing some in the early ‘60s very much like it. The “light” looks like an engine turbo-charger at first glance. But it’s a bit small and is driven by an electric motor which makes it a ventilation motor for the crew and or the avionics. Best guess would be for forced air off an onboard gas fired heater. It gets real cold up at altitude. 🥶 With twin engine aircraft you generally don’t get bleed air off an engine for heat so, with few exceptions, they used onboard heaters. Too bad you didn’t find a number plate on the engine. About almost 48,000 of that type of engine was produced from multiple manufacturers (even Studebaker!) and countries. Caterpillar even made a Diesel engine version (D200) for the M4 Sherman. Great explore. Good job!

On January 24th, 1952, an Albatross from the 580th Air Resupply Squadron was flying from Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho to San Diego. Over Death Valley, California, its port engine caught on fire. It was already dark and the plane started losing altitude fast so a decision was made. All five crewmembers bailed out and the plane later hit one of the peaks of the Panamint Mountains.

Back in the mid-90's I was hiking around the mountains just North of Anza, Ca, and I came across what I think was the wreckage of an A-6 Intruder. According to what I could find on the wreck the plane was coming back from a training mission in the late 60's or early-70's heading towards Miramar Naval Station when the plane had mechanical issues. The pilot safely ejected.

Cool video. Thank you. And THANK YOU for not posting crappy royalty free music overtop the drone shots.

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Engines always roll down the hill after detaching in a crash, the other is probably at the bottom. I live on the side of Mt. Tamalpais in N CA and we have two Corsairs, a B-17 (only one engine left) and a lot of wreckage of a PBM-5 Mariner seaplane. I found one Corsair engine in a creek, the rangers say they are up higher and someone stole a whole wing in the 90's. The story about the B-17 is interesting, it was cleaned up quickly but locals took pieces of it before they could haul it all away, it was supposedly carrying detonators for the atomic bombs. The Corsairs were pilots in training and they hit each other but they both bailed out and made it. I grew up on Oahu and I know where engines from Pearl Harbor are grown up into trees.

Back in the early 80s my friend & I made that hike, at the time we were both HU-16 flight mechs in the Coast Guard.

Poor aircraft, it almost made it over the mountains. There is the remnants of a B-17 close to where I live that almost made it over the mountains as well after World War II, no survivors, engine cylinders and a battery is about all there is left, people have carried off plane for scrap and souvenirs unfortunately. Thank you for sharing!

Very good, please don't take risks with your hiking. Plan it for safety and stick to the plan. Cool find. Thank you.

Has radio in hand, proceeds to say " wish I could find a radio" LOL.

Amazing footage.. Also you can see a seat frame inside the fuselage. Just be careful 'cause being alone is a little of a risk just in case. Thanks for taking us on this hike

I VISITED THIS AIRCRAFT 40 YEARS AGO. IT WAS MUCH MORE INTACT.

Thanks for the video. I used to do hikes, but age and injuries will not let me do them so thanks for taking me on your hike-so cool!

Sick video. Crazy to think that wreck has been out in the elements for 70 years and still looks that intact.

I really enjoyed the video. I’m concerned that you are hiking alone. Too many things can happen while out and about. Stay safe

I was hoping you would have sent your drone down that ravine to film the other debris field. That would be easier than another hike & a LOT less chance for injury......Thanks for the share !

I know it's a remote location but amazing/weird that something like this is just sitting out there. Thanks for sharing!

I used to camp and hike through the mountains, ALONE. ..