Trip report by BestHike editor Rick McCharles
Increasingly popular is hiking out to see the 1973 US Navy C-117D Sólheimasandur Crash.
You might have seen it in Justin Bieber’s 2015 music video I’ll Show You.
I found the wreck fairly interesting — but enjoyed more continuing to the big black sand beach on the ocean. I had that to myself.
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The flight encountered severe icing and the crew were forced to land on a frozen river at Sólheimasandur.
All 7 crew members survived and were rescued by helicopter, but the aircraft was written off. The unsalvaged remains of the aircraft were left at the scene.
In January 2020, two Chinese tourists died of hypothermia near the wreckage after getting caught in a storm that went over the area.
A month later, SAR units had to rescue several tourists that had ignored a warning from the police to not trek to the wreckage due to deteriorating weather in the area.
