No, the decision to protect the plane wreck as a burial-in-place had nothing to do with it being a national park. In 1946, simply setting foot onto the Tahoma

No, the decision to protect the plane wreck as a burial-in-place had nothing to do with it being a national park. In 1946, simply setting foot onto the Tahoma Glacier required a highly technical mountaineering expedition. There were no helicopters at that time to bring in search & rescue personnel or to remove bodies. Park rangers and the Navy determined that a huge team of mountaineers would be required, and it would take them several weeks to extricate the bodies, by hand and on foot. A recovery could only have taken place in the late Summer/Fall, when the snow was at it's lowest level--but that would also require exposing the recovery team to the worst dangers of rockfall, crevasses, etc while they worked and camped on the glacier. The risk to rescuers was simple too great, and there were no feasible alternative options at the time. https://www.historylink.org/File/7820 https://www.historylink.org/File/7820 Listen, this is the THIRD time in row that you've asserted something that's just factually false, on this topic... Don't you think it would be a good idea to do some research and educate yourself about this topic, before you make any more comments about it? I mean this with respect... We all have gaps in our knowledge, and I assume that growing your knowledge is important to you? https://www.historylink.org/File/7820 https://www.historylink.org/File/7820