Love this! Came for the lobster, staying for the scary hikes!!! I'm from Canada, just miles from Washington state. I did a similar trip to this. Drove to Camden Tennessee and hiked a bit to where Patsy Clines plane went down. Very steep and not as much left but worth the side trip on my way to Memphis. Love your videos!! I hope to retire in South Carolina oneday.

@jasc3294

2 жыл бұрын

I SECOND THAT 😂

@BiG420ToMaTo420BuDs

2 жыл бұрын

I’d rather live in and see the Olympic rain forest where you’re from

@PhoenixWA80

Жыл бұрын

Haha! I'm from WA State, just miles from Canada. I also found this channel courtesy of Leon but now discovering more and loving it. ❤️

This plane was owned by "Martin Tool Works" ... It was a low time Cessna 414a. It had recently had an annual. The 53 yr old pilot had 2000 total hours, 713 hours in this make and model of plane. He was instrument rated, and had a current medical. The low clouds and rain should not have impacted this flight at all, the plane and pilot were rated for this weather. According to the NTSB, "There were several up and down altitude excursions" (prior to the crash).."After crossing snowbird VOR the aircraft turned south and again there were altitude excursions." "The final radar contact was at 6,100 feet and about 1 mile from the crash site."? They impacted the mountain at 6000 (above sea level), only 11 miles from their destination airport (Jackson County, NC). As stated in the video, the NTSB blamed "inadequate altitude" (obviously) and "Pilot impairment" ... The "altitude excursions" are odd. It indicates a pilot that is disoriented. Yet in this type of plane, and with a 2000 hr pilot this weather should not have been a factor. Unless the alcohol affected the pilot somewhat? At only 11 miles from the destination airport, it seems the pilot was descending to final approach, and simply descended slightly too soon. A 414 travels at around 250mph cruise, things happen VERY fast at that speed with only 11 miles to destination. RIP to the pilot and passenger.

You really can narrate a video well! The shot down the gutted fuselage with taps being played by rain, shelter and sorrow in one shot no narration required. Wow. Well done. Your respect to the site was also commendable.

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Hey thanks for checking it out. That day was an amazing physical adventure! ✌️✌️✌️

Dang! North Carolina forests are gorgeous! That's where the American fairies live, y'all! Gotta be; it's so magical looking! Another great hike and story, Brady! I really appreciated all the reference photos too.

@Bradybrandwood

Жыл бұрын

Awesome Sarah! Thanks for checking in out. ✌️✌️✌️

Just found your page recently, I absolutely love your drive to educate folks on so many different subjects. Thanks for bringing a smile to my face!

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you so much for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

After seeing this video I took the wife and kids for this hike. Super cool and lots of fun. This trail is pretty rough but fun even for those with limited ability. Several off shoots along the hike to beautiful views of the terrain below. I highly recommend this hike. Thanks for the video!

@Bradybrandwood

Жыл бұрын

Very cool you and your family made the hike. Yeah it is such a beautiful forest and area. ✌️✌️✌️

When I see this video, I'm really sorry I haven't traveled to the US. It has to be a lot of fun to explore the Appalachian Mountains by motorcycle. Here in Germany I live in a mountainous and wooded area called the Eifel. The mountains are not that high (max. 747 m = 2450 ft). We're referring to ourselves here as Hill Billys for fun. If I had to live in the US, the Appalachian Mountains would be my first choice.

@virginiastatesman4672

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome. I live in the Virginian Appalachians. Hill billies from all countries unite!

@Rsmvbizz

2 жыл бұрын

You would be a valued guest here in America

@bradking420

2 жыл бұрын

Well I always wanted to go to Germany. Would you like to switch countries with me for a few weeks?

@bradking420

2 жыл бұрын

@Denis haha I love them both. They are amazing countries with so much to see.

@trapse5165

2 жыл бұрын

I live in the US and I’ve never met outside of the US

This guy's videos are like relaxing PBS documentaries, perfect viewing before bed.

Super cool soundtracks... combined with a cool clean narrative style... similarly with Leon's videos. I dig it.

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

I hiked this trail by myself and missed the side trail for the plane. I kept going on the main trail for about an hour and finally ended up at a campground with a beautiful look out point. Thankfully I found the plane on my way back.

Beautiful hike, beautiful narration & music choices! Thank you!

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Kathy! Thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

I'm from Virginia. I've even lived near the Appalachian Trail. I'm now a resident of sunny old Florida. Seeing this video though brings back great memories of home. And makes me miss it like hell!

I found you through your ‘Liberty of Leon’ and now I’m staying! Your voice is very calming and you make interesting vids. Thanks

@danielwallace5352

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there

How fortunate for us that you made a snap decision to rescue a lobster from the grocery store. Leon's story has brought many of us to your other very fine videos. These I would probably not have found. Life is odd some times. Say Hi to Leon for us. :)

Great video. It's a stark lesson of how fleeting life is and how things can come to a screeching halt for you and others if you make the wrong choices.

@runningintohistory

2 жыл бұрын

Great point.

1:34 That’s very good technique how you use framing and pan slowly and steadily to showcase the beautiful scenery! A+++++

When I was a kid i explored the mountainside crash site of a WWII bomber in the San Gabriel mountains of SoCal. I remember finding an engine pretty far from the primary debris field. It looked fairly intact. This was over 50 years ago. I wonder if anyone ever recovered that engine.

"good pot and earthy soil"....I'm putting this on my bucketlist!! lol

So you had videos before Leon! They never would have made it to my feed had it not been for Leon and my interest in animal stories. I look forward to getting to know you Brady!

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Sandra! Thank you for watching, and for checking out some of the other videos here. ✌️✌️✌️

Awesome video......I don’t know if I could have done the hike, but seeing the plane would have been mesmerizing. Thank you! 🙏🏼😄💙🐬

I love your videos, Brady. I would love more videos on hiking. I live in an area that doesn't have much rain or lush green hiking trails like this :( Rest in peace to the two victims of this plane crash 🙏

Thank you. This is such a beautiful part of my state. I would love to have a cabin here. I live in the Triad but crave the mountains.

wow, the forest looks so cool, in my country we have more dry and flat woods.. .(

I can say with certainty that the NTSB recovered the engines. It’s an integral part of any aircraft accident investigation.

U made my lunch break time awesome. This video is amazing. Would love to check that out in the future.

found your channel because of leon but stayed because of how relaxing your voice and videos are 🦞 💞

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Britt! Thanks for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

Brady, good job. You created an interest to follow, crafted an excellent mood, punctuated with the quiet rain tapping on the metal fuselage. I like your narration timing, gives me time to drift a bit and speculate about the eventful evening, so long ago. OK, and who is taking care of Leon. You are good at this.

Really awesome and well done video and excellent Narration. I thank you for allowing me to learn about a place such as that crash site. Amazing!

Visually stunning footage.

Very well done. Good music selection. Just found this channel, and I've watched several videos already. All of them great. Hopefully your channel continues to grow.

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Louis that is much appreciated! Thank you for watching! ✌️✌️✌️

Please do more videos like this and use the hype around your lobster videos to grow this channel

Beautiful video. Never heard about this site but now this is on the list of adventures. Thank you.

I miss the peach👍. Great footage. You are very talented. Beautiful scenery. Can't imagine what it was like for the rescuers.

@Bradybrandwood

3 жыл бұрын

Jo yeah I've wondered that too,... I have no idea how rescue workers got in there,... maybe by helicopter.

I’ve always wanted to hike around that area, I love all those ferns!

Leon brought me here. Wow, you really do sound like Marty Stouffer from Wild America. This was a beautiful, spooky video with much respect for the subject matter. Nice job. I can't wait to watch more of your videos.

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Monica thank you, and thank you for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

Very beautiful trail, and excellent cinematography! Creepy cool seeing that plane, especially knowing two people perished there! Glad you had a safe, enjoyable journey. Just wondering if you heard any banjo ' s competing with each other in the distance whilst you were taking in that fresh, mountain air! Lol! Let alone anyone squealing like a pig... :D

@Bradybrandwood

3 жыл бұрын

Haaaaaaa Kim,... I do often hear banjos,...

I thought I recognized your voice! Leon and hikes with some background story!

Great work Brady, love it!

@Bradybrandwood

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Tom, thanks for checking it out. ✌️✌️✌️

Amazing narrative skill, really cool video material and youre music choices are really soothing i love them all haha

Wow! I go up on that part of the Blue Ridge Parkway a lot but have never been to that crash site! November 1983 was the month I was born, so I really need to make it up there some time. Nice to see the Gaffney Peachoid make a guest appearance in the beginning of the video too. :)

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome Matt! Thank you for checking it out. ✌️✌️✌️

Found this video because of the Idiots in Bars interview. Strange that the full wreck was not removed in 1983 as part of the investigation. But it made for an interesting, eerie, reflective hiking destination. Googling, I read an article about the wreck's removal in June 2023.

@Bradybrandwood

4 ай бұрын

Yeah apparently the wreckage was helicoptered out recently. Thanks for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

Did this hike last year when it was covered in snow kind of hard to find when everything was white lol tore my Meniscus on the way down also. Got it all on video lol thanks for sharing your experience!

@Bradybrandwood

3 жыл бұрын

I watched your video last night. Very cool. Ouch on the meniscus. It’s weird how different the trails look in the winter versus the summer. ✌️✌️✌️

@NickandRachel

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bradybrandwood Thankfully that's all held up now. It is crazy how different everything looks I can't wait to go back in the springtime! Thanks for checking out the video man!

Oh my gosh I'm in North Carolina and I did not know about this. Thank you, I might find a friend to do this adventure with me as well!

@Bradybrandwood

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the state just removed the plane this week because so many people were hiking to it. 🥲✌️✌️

@Court75

10 ай бұрын

@Bradybrandwood It still looks like a beautiful area to hike through. And I was a little curious why they would have left that debris and not removed it back in the 80s. I'm glad they removed it. And it's cool that you were able to capture it before it was removed. It was kind of like going on a little adventure vicariously through you. I enjoy your videos a lot, thank you! Say hi to Leon for me.🙂

Love the scenery, your outdoor adventures are so well filmed, really immerses me in the area feels like I’m there. Probably not the best idea for me to watch this particular video while my daughter is flying on a plane to Texas and due to land in a few minutes. Makes me feel a bit 😬

@danielwallace5352

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there

That use to be my hobby when I was young . Im from Vancouver Island in B C. Liberator bombers during WW2 returnind home from the Pacific ,got lost in the fog , and ran into west coast island mountains . Back then , they still had the guns on them . Most of them have plaques on them now .

''smells are amazing like a mixture of good pot and soil'' hehehhe my man!!

brandy never let us down campeón !!

Came here from your pet lobster homerun. Great job. Make some more.

Thanks for the story

I like your variety of content. Its good to see

Great video that truly deserves more views :)

This video is so good!

that is one of the coolest trails i've seen. plus, a crashed plane!? so cool

You are a great narrator.

Beautiful yet so sad

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah Julie, that’s a great way to put it. ✌️✌️✌️

Your videos are so cool !!!

Beautiful land!

There is another Plane crash on Grandfather mtn hour north of Asheville also. Rumor is it flew too low and its cargo was a lot of Marijuana.

Losing the trail here would be a nightmare. I could almost smell the place.

Good job Brady!

@Bradybrandwood

3 жыл бұрын

Steve Hunter Many thanks! ✌️✌️✌️

Came for the lobster, stayed for Brady...

@Bradybrandwood

3 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you for checking out the videos, much appreciated! ✌️✌️✌️

Such a pretty area! Would love to hike with you and learn the area!

nice views and nature

Amazing video sir! You've earned a sub!

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

That is awesome! Thank you for subscribing and for watching. ✌️✌️✌️

Man I enjoy ur videos I wish I would have found these along time ago I am from NC to use to be up there alot in Asheville

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

Travis you’ll have to check it out sometime if you have time. It’s a very cool hike. ✌️✌️✌️

This is the definition of flying under the radar!

A store bought lobster brought me here

I would love to travel and see this so exciting

Fascinating

Lol this is literally in my backyard I love this place!

Recommended this because I watched Leon the Lobster videos. Not even mad. The wife and I love to hike! We just put this on our list

7:21 The dog gave a bit of a fright. At first I thought it was a wild animal that had been lurking while you filmed the site.

Very Vantastic and beautifus

I don't have any specific information about this plane crash, but ... after death, the body's metabolism stops, so the level of alcohol in the blood will not change until the body decomposes.

I loved this video! What’s the song you used when you walk in to the plane crash site?

Wow, over 6000 feet? That’s almost as high as mount mitchell

Thanks for the wonderful trip on the mountain, but why didn' t anyone pick this plane from there, so far? If the forest is the problem, why didn' t they wrap it around with some heavy duty cables and belts/harnesses and just drop a hook from a Chinook chopper or something, above from the air?

I lived not far from here just a few years ago, never knew this was here... From my knowledge (as a forensics student + a refresher from google), blood alcohol doesn't decrease after death--but apparently in certain conditions it can _increase_ if left alone for long enough. Not enough to cause the reported amount/get him 'under the legal limit,' but I thought I'd mention it too.

@Bradybrandwood

Жыл бұрын

That’s interesting for sure! When I saw the valleys there when I was hiking I thought about how scary it must’ve been to be in the dark with rain trying to navigate through those valleys and peaks.

Did you happen to catch the registration number? I love reading into some of the history and reports

Omg I went here! I'm from New Zealand lol

Brady I watched your video of the plane crash. You were talking about the smell of marijuana. Made me remember about a plane crash in Dalton County GA. Andrew Plott and William Flannigan were hauling marijuana in a B 25. Being chased by officials they dumped about a ton of marijuana before hitting the hillside, killing both of them. I've been interested in this story since I was about 18. went to school in Duluth and their last name was Plott. I think Andrew Plott was their father. me girls all happened no trying to find a newspaper article about Andrew Plott from Duluth GA.

@7:42 see someone behind the wreckage, were you there on your own or were there other hikers?

Did it not catch fire? How long did it take to find and recover? It is notoriously difficult to establish a reliable BAC post mortem. If the plane had no fire at crashing maybe it was out of fuel. I thought the opening music was wonderful and appropriate but the techno-new age whatever was a wee bit jaunty for the circumstances.

@Bradybrandwood

Жыл бұрын

I believe it was 18 hours before the plane was located. Good question about the fuel. If the plane was clipping trees coming through the wings and fuel tanks may have been sheared off by trees.

another great video, sir! prolly wasn't much of an investigation as soon as the pilots blood was tested. the rest is a given.

I need to work on my endurance for this!

@danielwallace5352

2 жыл бұрын

Hello there

So I want to make this trip as I'm about an hour away from this, how long did it take to walk up and to the plane and back to parking lot?

@Bradybrandwood

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a pretty physical 45 minute hike. It’s definitely a fun adventure. You should do it. Spring or summer is definitely the most beautiful. ✌️✌️✌️

@DYLANTRIES

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bradybrandwood ok thanks bud I will try and finish building my C10 and take a trip over

I just did this again recently in sniper elite 4. Found the pilot too!

do you ever say where it is you get your music?

Whats the music you use? At moment you show the ruins of the plane.

nearly 80k subscribers. Get ya a camera my guy.

Did you get a chance to see the Smoke Monster?

Why do I gotta live in the desert, why can't I live somewhere that is this type of environment? Also, there is something eerie about seeing abandoned vehicles or structures mixed within nature like this IMO. It's like a symbol of impermanence, the embodiment of the idea that what we create could be taken away from us by nature if nature so chooses to take it away from us, things like shipwrecks or abandoned buildings in the woods are so creepy because they're an example of this.

Maggie valley is the moonshine capital where popcorn Sutton was from

its a plane from third part of jurassic park :D

Have u been to cades cove

The engines were taken by the NTSB to rule out any engine issues. That the rest remained there on that mountain will in a way ensure that those two lives are remembered until nature takes back what once belonged to her and only her.

So sad!

U should do some ghost hunting if u get bored there are plenty of spots here in Tennessee and definitely in Georgia and historic North Carolina

What music did you use?

@kevinkeidel3137

2 жыл бұрын

Eyal Raz - black goldie

The process of decomposing will increase the deceased BAC so depending how long it took authorities to recover the body and get it to the autopsy table means it’s possible that alcohol played no role in the crashing of the plane✌🏼