Ice-Encased Plane Wreckage Provides Data for Glacier Ice Flow
In recent years, wreckage parts of a 1946 crashed aircraft of the U.S. Air Force were recovered at the Gauli Glacier. Model calculations by ETH Zurich researchers now show that the fuselage of the aircraft will probably only emerge from the ice in 8 to 16 years. In November 1946, a U.S. Air Force aircraft ...
