Potosi Mountain, Las Vegas

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  1. Frank Sanoica

    Frank Sanoica Supreme Member
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    For those unaware, the wife of famous Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, died when her plane hit Potosi Mountain, outside of Vagas, in 1942.
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    "The Carole Lombard Crash Site is one of those quintessential Las Vegas experiences. A playground for the rich and famous, Las Vegas attracts many celebrities; some never make it home. In 1942, a plane carrying Carole Lombard (famous movie star and wife of Clark Gable) crashed high on the east face of Mt. Potosi. The site is now a footnote in history, visited occasionally by plane crash buffs, Carole Lombard fans, and tough Las Vegas hikers."

    "The largest pieces of wreckage include engine parts and landing gear, which mostly are in the gully below the impact site. People already recovered the large aluminum parts (body and wings), so those are gone. However, thousands of small pieces of aluminum, lots of cabling, lots of fuel or hydraulic lines, bits of glass and ceramics, rubber hoses, and many other metallic parts litter the ground. People have been collecting the more interesting artifacts for decades, so what remains is too big to carry or not particularly interesting. There are also many interesting shell fossils in the rocks at the crash site."

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    Bolts on this DC-3 engine piston cylinder stripped under the force of the crash as the cylinder was nearly broken away.
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    Many more pics of wreckage: https://www.birdandhike.com/Hike/Other_Areas/Lombard/_Lombard_photos.htm

    My wife and I, and her brother and sister, hiked up Mt. Potosi when we lived in Vegas, 1974.
    Frank
     
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    Quite interesting, Frank
     
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