Great Danger. I would appreciate communicating with you by email. 2 engine, that this engine had been shut down and that the aircraft was returning to Vancouver via Cultus and Abbotsford. Hanns, I remember the night the aircraft crashed. Slesse is also home to a rock climbing route that was first climbed on the East face in August of 1963 by one of the most prominent rock climbers in world history, Fred Becky. "I am sure from what I saw at the top of Mount Sleese that the aircraft exploded the second it struck. Six years before the crash I'd flown by Slesse myself and become transfixed by its sheer east and north faces. A pair of earrings found were still attached to their show card. Debris from the crash of TC Flight 810 on Slesse Mountain. As I moved some years ago it will be hard locating the films I took but they are there. GenDisasters is a genealogy site, compiling information on the historic disasters, events, and tragic accidents our ancestors endured, as well as, information about their life and death. Correct me please!! Canadian Military Records ATC cleared 810 to cross the Vancouver range at 8 000 feet or above. H. W. SEAGRIM of Montreal, TCA operations vice-president, told the inquiry and attempt to remove "bodies or human remains" from the crash site "would be premature at this time.". For five months nobody knew what ⦠(CP) -- The victims of Canada's worst air disaster, for five months lost without a trace, seem destined for a mass burial service as unidentified human fragments. ... * Eventually reaches the crest of a ridge and follows it all the way up to the rocky terrain below Mt. that Vancouver tower told the pilot to circle as a holding position. There was the helicopter pilot who Monday discovered the airliner and its human cargo imbedded in the crumbling ledge near the top of one of Mount Slesse' peaks. Slesse Crash. Comming from the East the plane would have almost made it as the Mt. In ten minutes, you are at the memorial site, with a small monument to the victims of the crash and a plaque explaining what took place. as the face jut was only 15 ft wide. He was from Bavaria/Germany and he was a very good Slesse killing all 62 aboard. Slesse memorial was in mind for a while. The aircraft departed Vancouver at 1810 hours Pacific standard time on 9 December 1956 and was cleared by Air Traffic Control to Calgary Airport via Mud Bay, Abbotsford and Cultus Lake (Red 75 and Red 44). It carried a crew of 3 and 59 passagers. Free Trial - Ancestry.ca. Sounds like you have done alot of research. Winnipeg Free Press Manitoba 1957-05-16 <<<<<<<<<<. From the dark summit helmet, the northeast buttress plumbed straight down, took a sharp leftward crook at twenty ⦠Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 was a Canadair North Star on a scheduled flight from Vancouver to Calgary (continuing to Regina, Winnipeg, and Toronto).The plane crashed into Mount Slesse near Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada, on 9 December 1956 after encountering severe icing and turbulence over the mountains.All 62 ⦠For those not familiar with the climb, Mt. The North East Buttress of Slesse is still heralded as one of Fred greatest first ascents, even with his undisputed title as being the all-time world ⦠The following factors contributed to the accident: Crash of a Canadair C-4M2 North Star on Mt Slesse: 62 killed. The cause for the aircraft being at an altitude low enough to strike Mount Slesse is undetermined, but there is a high probability that the aircraft, while flying on 3 engines, encountered either severe icing, turbulence, subsidence, or a combination of all three, or suffered some other difficulty of such a sudden or dire nature that ⦠- this time the Mt. ⦠It is a must that every approaching plane must ask the tower for the new QFE. I flew over the mountain 8 years ago and located the impact point with a large amount of ⦠For example, its west face drops over 1,950 m (6,398 ft) to Slesse Creek in less than 3 km (2 mi). When I retired from my job in 2000, I decided to research the crash and have spent the past nine years looking at everything I could find. The face jut is just about 50 ft. below the peak a trip to Mt. 16. This would explain the plane hit the peak comming from the West. Canadian Immigration & Naturalization Records Slesse is the last high mountain before reaching Vancouver airport. Mt. The Slesse Memorial Trail in Chilliwack is a scenic hike that passes a memorial plaque, remembering the air crash of 1956, before climbing to the Propeller Cairn. The Slesse Memorial Trail in Chilliwack is a scenic hike that passes a memorial plaque, remembering the air crash of 1956, before ⦠Database and records searchable by surname. a hugh propeller and some fuselage windows. . The flight made the normal position reports giving altitude and reported icing beginning at 16 000 feet, moderate turbulence 16 000 feet to 18 000 feet, heavy jolts at 19 000 feet and at 1848 requested clearance to 21 000 feet. Mount Slesse Commemorative Site Entrance. . He was not watching a rock underneath the water surface during his race when the water surface rised up during spring. . Hanns it at autumn - the place was free of snow and ice. Maybe you may find this kind of article in your newspaper of does days. He suggested that in mid-summer a mass burial service "be considered as the most practical approach to a most difficult and most thoroughly examined propblem." When a plane crashed in those days the Royal Mail used to recover the mail and stamp it with a special stamp for that crash called crash covers and deliver it where possible. I looked quickly where it was located, grabbed my⦠A cruising altitude of 19,000 feet was selected. in 1959 I visited my two brothers in Vancouver. It is also famous ⦠Indeed it had. We visited the site of the plane crash, which was ⦠We took down a bale of airmail-letter - but when we heard at our return in Vancouver - the place was declared as a memorial or grave yard - we left the bale in front of a post office entrance in the evening. It was and remains a sad event with many unanswered questions that I wondered about over the years. â it was the August long weekend, 1997. He said: Next day we climbed very steep. They were the only ones to actually set foot on the treacherous rock slide-threatening pocket in the sheer vertical slope where the main portion of the plane and crash victims were scattered. Slesse - as he was a very good Bavarian alpinist. "Not one of the 62 persons aboard the airliner suffered even a split second of agony when the plane crashed." The pilots climbed to 19,200 feet (5,900 m) by 6:55, when they experienced a fire ⦠Mount Slesse Memorial Site. Privacy Policy. When we were back I was wondering about why noone was interested in searching for more persons up there and taking them down. William Knight (a peak within the Cheam Range of ⦠All through this latter part of the flight the tone of the voice in the radio transmission, as recorded on TCA tape, did not suggest undue concern by the crew of 810. It is hard to resist a sunny day. This mountain made the news in December 1956 when the Trans Canada Airlines flight 810 lost an engine and became iced in winter storm conditions, got off-route trying to return to the Vancouver airport, and crashed on Slesse's Eastern flank near the summit killing all 62 people on board. At heavy snow we did not see much but we could see all the items I named and Province reported PADDY SHERMAN, Alpine Club member who led a party to the wreck Tuesday, says in a copyright story that most of the wreckage was an unrecognizable mass. The one lost engine was not the problem for sure. Crash debris in the area and incredible views. When I retired from my job in 2000, I decided to research the crash and have spent the past nine years ⦠Families of the victims understood the crash area had been given cemetery status and were shocked to discover this was not done. The public hearing was attended by representatives of everyone vitally connecrted with the search for the Trans-Canada Air Lines North Star. On November 29 1963, a cold, rainy nite, exactly one week after the assassination of JFK a TCA DC-8, not a year old nose dived into the ground in Ste. THE MT. Thank you for your input!!! There were mountaineers who Tuesday ascended Mount Slesse's perilous southern ridge to the 6,600 foot level. Flight 810-9 left Vancouver International Airport at 6:10 PM on 9 December 1956, assigned to fly the Green 1 air lane east to Calgary, Alberta, though the pilots asked for and received clearance for a routing via airways Red 44 and Red 75 instead, which took the aircraft past Cultus Lake and into a weather system called a trowal. At 1852, 810 reported a fire in No. must have fallen down some hundred feet. WILLIAM KNIGHT PLANE DISASTER - Much has been written about the Mt. . 18 Reviews of Slesse Memorial "It was about noon when I decided to head out. At 1852, 810 reported a fire in No. The author treats the crew and passengers and their families with empathy. alpinist. 2 engine, that this engine had been shut down and that the aircraft was returning to Vancouver via Cultus and Abbotsford. It started to snow and the face became more icy. We climbed down on a icy wall and spend the night at the timberline at an open fire drying our cloth. Shortly ⦠Yesterday we went back to Slesse, with plans to climb the East Buttress (1993 Beckham-Child route). If you could send me a personal e-mail at [email protected] I would appreciate it. FamilyOldPhotos Old-Yearbooks TexasHistoryArchives, Canadian Birth, Marriage, & Death Records, Canadian Immigration & Naturalization Records, Port Maitland, ON Plane Crashes, Dec 1956, Danville, VA Private Plane Crash, Sep 1956, Edwards Air Force Base, CA Bell X-2 Experimental Plane Crash, Sep 1956, Newville, PA Air Force Plane Crashes, Oct 1956, Cressy, CA Air Force B-52 Jet Crash, Dec 1956. Just underneath of the peak at a face-jut we did meet the place Comments about Slesse Memorial Trail. A gripping account of Western Canada's worst aviation disaster. The other day I had the privilege to hike the amazing Mt. By taking motion pictures all the way up at the crash site the remaining film material did last for only one minute. Dear Rien,--- I would like to find out more on this mystery crash. Slesse Mountain, usually referred to as Mount Slesse, is a mountain just north of the US-Canada border, in the Cascade Mountains of British Columbia, near the town of Chilliwack.It is notable for its large, steep local relief. From here you have a view of the "debris bowl" where the majority of the debris from the plane that crashed, a Canadair Northstar, ended up. We walked over cloth and some other material - a huge propeller was seen at the face like it was pressed into the face. There was no other way then walking over the cloth a.s.o. Itâs bigger, more remote, and with tricky route finding. But which tower would send a plane into a holding position when one engine is out of order? Parking area / Former trailhead: ⦠They formed the group, âFamilies of Slesseâ, and resolved that the area would finally be protected. PHOTO: Jonhall At the time, it was the worst aviation disaster in Canadian history, and only three crashes since then have taken a greater toll of lives than Flight 810. I used to hike around Chilliwack Lake and always looked over at Slesse and wonder--- How- Why it happened! Everything looked very fresh - guess up there are always freezing temperatures - as my film shows. Contact me. 18. Photos: What Mount Slesse, site of the Flight 810 crash, looks like from the ground today. Such an airliner can hold it`s altitude A Mountaineer party on a hike Sunday stumbled upon plane fragments which set off the helicopter search. Even with the three remaining engines he was able to climb. Found him just by luck. You could almost feel the emotion of being on ⦠of Mt. Chilliwack, B.C. In 1995 a plaque was erected to honour those who lost their lives, and the area was declared a commemorative site. The route is out in the open following an old road, and takes you not only to the plaque but also to a ⦠As especially at the costline you find Compilation, design, artwork and concept covered by copyright. The crash wasn't even found until May when some climbers came across pieces of the plane. In autumn of 1959 he invited me to one of his trips reaching the next peak Slesse. This is just not the whole truth ! here beeing 100 ft to low when crossing peak slesse. 1 to which it had been cleared by Air Traffic Control. A cairn will probably be erected near the site where 62 lives were lost Dec. 9 on craggy Mount Slesse in the Cascade range of southern British Columbia. The North East Buttress of Slesse is still heralded as one of Fred greatest first ascents, even with his undisputed title as being the all-time ⦠Saturday Oct. 28 2006 Our trip was to the 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) Northstar DC-4M2 Crash Debris Field on Mt Slesse. It was and remains a sad event with many unanswered questions that I wondered about over the years. Slesse. The film I never showed to anyone. Province reported PADDY SHERMAN, Alpine Club member who led a party to the wreck Tuesday, says in a copyright story that most of the wreckage was an unrecognizable mass. Slesse is also home to a rock climbing route that was first climbed on the East face in August of 1963 by one of the most prominent rock climbers in world history, Fred Becky. Clive W. I remember the night the aircraft crashed. A well-illustrated book will be the end result, with considerably more detail, and it is hoped that this will dispel a good deal of the mystery behind this ⦠December 9th marked the 50th anniversary of the TCA DC-4M Northstar collision with the eastern slope of Mt. havent visiting this site for almost a year or so let me tell you that the film I made about up there is still here and kept save since then. A mountain guard found his Nothing more was heard of the aircraft until a part was dis- covered by mountaineers on 12 May 1957, when they .were climbing Mt Slesse, at approximately the 7 600-foot level, adjacent to the third highest peak. Some of the mail should be rather special, I think -- from the Mercury Insurance machines. The friend of mine who took me along up there got killed almost one year later by having done some speed boot racing on a small Mt. Browse by State AL | AK | AR | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DC | DE | FL | GA | HI | IA | ID | IL | IN | KS | KY | LA | MA | MD | ME | MI | MN | MO | MS | MT | NE | NC | ND | NH | NJ | NM | NV | NY | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VA | VT | WA | WI | WV | WY, Canadian Birth, Marriage, & Death Records The East Buttress looked quite wet, so we instead climbed the South Peak by a combination of the Southeast Buttress and the gully between the South Peak and the Third Peak. You get nervous - and you get really nervous when you have a burning engine at the wing. If so they are right - then you cant see much. This "difficult and most thoroughly examined" decision was announced Wednesday night following a coroner's inquiry in this Fraser Valley city, 20 miles northwest of the crash. GPS Waypoints. I did film the whole trip with my Super-8 camera - also the place the plane hit the face. Hi Rien, MR. 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