A small plane crashed in a rugged area northwest of Deckers on Saturday and members of a rescue operation that reached the crash site on Sunday determined the pilot died.
Website Purpose:This site documents military and historical aircraft crash sites in Colorado and Wyoming. It contains site descriptions, brief descriptions of the accident causes (if known) , locating maps and GPS coordinates of the sites. This site also contains trip reports, narratives, pictures,...
As well as being dedicated to, and named after, the American humorist Will Rogers (who sadly died in a plane crash), the site houses the tombs of Julie and Spencer Penrose. The latter built many of the city’s standout sights, such as Cheyenne Mountain Zoo and the Broadmoor Resort. Com...
Perhaps the hardest part of this adventure is the long drive to the trailhead along semi-signed dirt roads. Guidebooks and sites like14ers.comcan help lead the way. It’s not terribly difficult to reach, but these roads are best navigated in daylight. 7. Culebra Peak Hiking along the gen...
This mangled and twisted wreckage left by the side of a Mexican road was no accident, but a planned crash in the name of science and safety. Churchill, Manitoba Miss Piggy Plane Wreck A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark. Opijnen, Nethe...
In the continuation of the Iraq disarmament crisis, Iraq upheld its decision to deny inspectors access to several sites and the U.S. was unable to gain military support to solve the issue. President Clinton gave the go-ahead for U.S. forces to remain in Bosnia as part of NATO's Implemen...
It's not the most aerobatic plane around, but it's not supposed to be. Is it like it's Big Brother? You bet! It just handles a LOT quicker. One small item, though... It travels so fast and covers so much real estate that it can get out there where it's hard to see in shor...
government signed the Yellowstone National Park Act into law and created what the National Park Service (NPS) refers to as "the world's first true national park." Today, there are thousands of national parks throughout the world, and four of them — Rocky Mountain, Mesa Verde, Black Canyon...
A U.S. district court judge said White House officials, as well as some federal agencies and their employees, violated the First Amendment's right to free speech by "coercing" or "significantly encouraging" social media sites' content-moderation decisions. The judge issued an injunction restrictin...
Schendler added that there may come a time when it might not matter whether these sites have enough water — because it may be “too hot to make snow anyway.” “In Aspen, there’s a month less winter than when we opened in 1947,” Schendler said. ...