{"id":564519,"date":"2021-06-15T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564519"},"modified":"2021-06-15T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:21:56","slug":"california-drought-leaves-lake-low-missing-plane-appears-to-be-found-at-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-drought-leaves-lake-low-missing-plane-appears-to-be-found-at-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"California Drought Leaves Lake Low, Missing Plane Appears To Be Found At Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-drought-leaves-lake-low-missing-plane-appears-to-be-found-at-bottom%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=564519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233143395.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Because California has been hit with a calamitous drought, the water level in Folsom Lake near Sacramento has dropped precipitously, triggering the discovery of a fully-intact plane at the bottom of the lake, a plane that may have gone mysteriously missing in 1965 after a New Year\u2019s Day crash.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Atkinson, one of the workers testing underwater sonar technology in Folsom Lake, told <a href=\"https:\/\/sacramento.cbslocal.com\/2021\/06\/12\/el-dorado-county-technicians-believe-they-found-plane-wreckage-of-1965-folsom-lake-crash\/\">KOVR-TV<\/a>, \u201cI saw something that was not normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Timplin, the president of Seafloor Systems, the underwater surveying company, stated, \u201cHe sees something on the bottom that looks man-made, and that\u2019s when we say, \u2018There\u2019s definitely something down there,\u2019 and maybe it\u2019s the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sonar gave us about 100 feet of range. You could see the plane as clear as day. We could see the fuselage here. We could see the right wing. We could see the tail,\u201d said Timplin, referencing the imaging.\u201cHere, you can see the cowl housing of the engine and the props.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Riley, another employee who was with Atkinson, added, \u201cThese lights on the ROV (remote-operated underwater vessel) allow me to say, \u2018Okay, there is no way that\u2019s a rock.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plane\u2019s tail and propeller looked like those of the Piper Comanche 250 that crashed in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/15\/folsom-lake-plane-crash-california-drought\">told KRON-4<\/a>, \u201cI think it\u2019s amazing that after all this time there\u2019s been a lot of research and a lot of effort put into finding this for the family and also to retrieve what no one knew was down there.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6305732484076\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The wreckage of a 1965 plane crash of a Piper Comanche 250 in Folsom Lake may have just been identified by researchers, using underwater sonar surveying equipment and low lake levels at the dam, outside of Sacramento. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hddX54qsVA\">https:\/\/t.co\/hddX54qsVA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zbLgegDiQG\">pic.twitter.com\/zbLgegDiQG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abc7newsbayarea\/status\/1404534205934153740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe New Year\u2019s Day crash following a mid-air collision with another plane 56 years ago killed all four people on board,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/california-drought-airplane-folsom-lake-sacramento-mystery-1965-crash\/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&#038;linkId=121438306\">CBS News<\/a>\u00a0reported. \u201cThe body of the pilot was recovered, but the bodies of the three passengers were never found, despite searches as recently as 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Radican, whose late husband, Frank Wilcox, spent most of his life searching for the wreckage of the plane in which his 15-year-old brother was killed (Wilcox was three years old at the time of the crash), said, \u201cHe didn\u2019t really know his brother, but him and his mom would go out to the lake periodically when the water was low and look around to see if they could see anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radican added that Wilcox had promised his mother he would keep looking for his brother\u2019s remains so he could give him a proper burial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plane carrying Wilcox\u2019s brother on his first flight collided in midair with a small Beechcraft Debonair sightseeing plane at an altitude of about 2,500 feet, the Roseville Press Tribune reported at the time. Despite being damaged, the Beechcraft managed to make a successful emergency landing at a local airport, but the Piper Comanche plummeted into the lake and disappeared, the newspaper reported,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/1965-california-plane-crash-solved-underwater-researchers-discover\/story?id=78265208\">ABC News<\/a> noted, adding, \u201cFolsom Lake, which has the capacity to hold 975,000 acre-feet of water, is down to about 361,000 acre-feet of water, or about 37% of capacity, according to California Department of Water Resources data released in May.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Placer County Sheriff\u2019s Office said no investigation has been launched.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because California has been hit with a calamitous drought, the water level in Folsom Lake near Sacramento has dropped precipitously, triggering the discovery of a fully-intact plane at the bottom &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280337,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233143395.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"California Drought Leaves Lake Low, Missing Plane Appears To Be Found At Bottom","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233143395.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"California Drought Leaves Lake Low, Missing Plane Appears To Be Found At Bottom","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}