27:00 (Plane!)


Around 27:00 there's a shot of half a plane in the middle of nowhere. Where have I seen this before? I feel like it's been on a famous album cover or something..

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kinda reminsicent of close encounter of the 3rd kind, or perhaps the nicholas cage classic, con air

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Does anyone know the actual story behind this plane? Where did it come from? Why is it still there?

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Thats funny, my first reaction was that it resembled the cover of Suede's "Sci-Fi Lullabies" album
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/4893548885125.jpg

Although I'm pretty sure that picture had to do with the falklands or something..I could be wrong (too lazy to look it up)



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The plane has numerous holes and dents as if it were shot down.

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This is an old cargo Douglas DC-35 Super Dakota that crash landed on Sólheimasandur which is on the south coast because of fuel exhaustion in bad weather around 1950+...ish. The US Army didn't think it was cost effective to save it so they salvaged what they could and left it there. No one was hurt in the crash. See here http://www.pbase.com/bolli/image/78839693

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Incredible posting, thanks for the info!

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It is fairly reminiscent of the cover of Suede's B-side collection Sci-Fi Lullabies. That's what it reminded me of anyway.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who instantly thought of Sci-Fi Lullabies.

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