Saw the video on this crash & belated recovery.
To be more specific, it crashed on a glacier near the Argentine - Chile border, became buried in snowfall, and slowly moved down the mountain with the glacial flow, until the melting runoff revealed it five decades later.
I believe a similar fate befell a WWII training flight discovered in California only a year ago.
And a Lockheed 14 "Super Electra" (basically a civil Hudson) disappeared between Italy and Corsica (not Sardinia) around 1950. It was not found until Comet I YP went down in the same area off Elba a few years later, and the search teams found the Lockheed debris also.
Last edited by barit1; 28th Jan 2007 at 18:28.