[at-l] Facts about Cosby Knob Air Crash? (GSMNP)

[rbenhameda@comcast.net (Rami)]

"manzana" <guillermo_manzana@hotmail.com> asked:

Does anyone have the real scoop?  (about the plane parts on the mountain)


[Rami]
>From "Hiking Trails of the Smokies" (isbn 0-937207-15-2) pub. 1994, updated=
 1999.  Pg. 69.

A description of the trail and history of the area on the AT from Tricorner=
 knob to Low Gap



" Past Inadu Knob, the trail descends almost 800' in the next mile, tunneli=
ng through rosebay rhododendron much of the time.  Many pieces of twisted m=
etal are grim reminders of the crash of an Air Force F-4 jet on January 4, =
1984.  There were no survivors; the pilot and navigator evidently mistook t=
heir elevation and smashed into the mountain at high speed.  People as far =
away as Newport Tennessee, reported hearing the thunderous explosion. "