Travelling — Wrecked DC-3 Plane on Sólheimasandur

Trecking around Iceland - 4, Secretive Wrecked DC-3 Plane on Sólheimasandur

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Secretive Wrecked DC-3 Plane on Sólheimasandur   Leave Highway 1, We drive on the unpaved gravel roads for quite a while. Looking ahead, surrounded by a barren, occasionally encounter a passing oncoming car, telling us we are on the right way.  We drive for few kilometers alone, then we arrive the secretive crash site. It is the 1973 US Navy Douglas Super DC-3 Wreckage. It made an emergency landing because of bad weather in Iceland. Fortunately no casualties. Four decades passed,  the wreckage left here, the barren black soil, made Iceland secretive and bizarre. [Tips] How to find the crash site? We...

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