Half a century after Northwest Airlines Flight 4422 slammed into the side of 4,950-meter Mount Sanford in eastern Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, killing all 30 men on board, commercial pilots Kevin McGregor and Marc Millican found the wreckage embedded in a glacier. After searching fruitlessly for the debris from the air, McGregor and Millican undertook several arduous treks on foot on the glacier
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Feed SubscriptionRemains of Satellite May Never Be Found, NASA Says
* Defunct satellite re-entered atmosphere early Saturday * Debris field most likely in Pacific Ocean * Satellite among largest to make uncontrolled re-entry By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Sept 24 (Reuters) - A six-tonne NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about where a tonne of space debris may have landed.
Read More »The South Pacific Islands Survey–We discover what’s floating in the Pacific Ocean!
After seven hours of dragging a metal trawl in the ocean, we pulled the manta ray-looking contraption on board--salt water splashing everywhere--to see what was inside. We reached into the slimy net, flipped it inside out and dumped the contents onto a mesh screen.
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