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The mystery behind the wreckage of a "decades-old" plane discovered in the Canadian wilderness prairies that left researchers confused has finally been solved.
It all began when a hunter was wandering a hillside north of Kamloops, British Columbia when he came across the wreckage of a crashed plane. He reported the frightening discovery to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who arrived to investigate the wreckage.
They managed to find only the main fuselage of the aircraft - without the engine, wings, doors and seats. "Only the fuselage remains. In addition, we did not find any registration numbers on him," a police spokesman said.
Not only was there not much left of the plane, but things took a mysterious turn when police were also unable to locate any bodies in the rubble or anywhere near the crash site. Transport for Canada published a report on the discovery in its Civil Aviation Incident Reporting System (CADORS), where it was revealed that investigators concluded that the aircraft was "destroyed" in a "collision with the ground".
Not much was known about the plane crash, but according to the reporting system, police determined the wreckage was "at least 20 to 25 years old." The mystery deepened when RCMP investigated and found that there were no reports of missing planes or passengers moving through the area over the past decades.
Wreckage in the middle of the forest/Screenshot, Civil Air Search and Rescue Association)
The solution to the mystery came from members of the Canadian Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA), who revealed that they knew exactly where the plane wreckage came from — because they put them there. Orwin Walden, a search and rescue pilot, explained that he received the fuselage from an airport that was about to close and towed it up the mountain two years ago to be used in a training exercise.
He told local news network CBC: "We put it there so we could train our viewers and navigators on how to find the wreckage of an airplane on a hillside." Orwin argued that the location was strategically chosen because it was far from flight paths so that CASARA pilots could practice flying in the area without interfering with other aircraft.
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It's easy to lose a plane crashing in the vast Canadian wilderness, so Fred Carey, chief executive of British Columbia's Air Search and Rescue Service, explains that search and rescue teams are conducting search drills on debris from old or decommissioned aircraft. He told the Guardian: "We like to make it as real as possible for them: smoke, injured people. They love it and we can treat it like a real plane shot down."
Curry explained that the location of the wreckage was never meant to be a secret and claims that the local airport and the county's main rescue coordination center in Victoria were notified that they had been placed there. The mystery has not been completely solved because the CADORS report noted that the rubble "had no visible registration or identification marks," but Carey claims signs were left in the rubble and there was even a phone number to call. He added: "I'm not sure what happened, maybe the signs wore out. But in this case, it doesn't look like the authorities were following protocol."
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