I'm just curious if anyone on the Whitney Zone was in Yosemite when the following plane crashed. [ Submitted by Kurt Repanshek on September 19, 2007 - 2:01am [/size] Taken from:
http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/review/2007/wall-death-yosemiteThe Lodestar Lightning case evolved from the backcountry crash in December 1976 of a vintage Lockheed PV-1 Ventura that had been designed to serve as a light bomber and sub spotter. In this case, though, the plane's cargo was marijuana, bales and bales of marijuana. Killed when the plane went down in Lower Merced Pass Lake were pilot Jon Scott Glisky, 31, of Seattle, and his passenger, Jeffrey Carl Nelson, 29.
What made the case highly sensational was not the deaths of the two men, tragic as they were, but rather the efforts by more than a few Yosemite regulars to reach the lake and make off with some of the "Lodestar Lightning" before rangers could retrieve the marijuana from the lake.
