{"id":763,"date":"2006-11-20T07:14:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=763"},"modified":"2006-11-20T07:14:40","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T12:14:40","slug":"looking-for-lost-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/looking-for-lost-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for lost planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a hike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calipidder.com\/mt\/archives\/2006\/11\/trifecta_dayhik.html\">Calipidder<\/a> did a couple weeks back, I hiked up the Monument Peak Trail on Saturday (words &#038; pix <a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/archives\/2006_11.html#003248\">here<\/a>) to see if I could find any remnants of a fighter jet that crashed there  55 years ago (today&#8217;s the 55th anniversary of the crash).  I did find a few.  Turns out there&#8217;s sort of a mini-specialty called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wreckchasing.com\/\">Wreck Chasing <\/a>devoted to exploring plane crash sites.  I must have the wreck-chaser gene because this is the second time I&#8217;ve gone out scouting for riveted scraps of aluminum (<a href=\"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/archives\/cat_el_corte_de_madera_open_space_preserve.html\">here&#8217;s the other one<\/a>).   Another popular Bay Area crash site accessible by hikers is in the Hayward Hills, where a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wreckchasing.com\/united615.htm\">DC6 crashed on approach to Oakland&#8217;s airport.<\/a>  At the very least, hiking to some of these sites can provide an appreciation for what rescuers went through. Though I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily recommend it if you&#8217;ve got a long flight coming up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a hike Calipidder did a couple weeks back, I hiked up the Monument Peak Trail on Saturday (words &#038; pix here) to see if I could find any remnants of a fighter jet that crashed there 55&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/11\/20\/looking-for-lost-planes\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}