Civil Air Patrol finds downed aircraft in Carter County Montana

[vento]

Black Hills Priest found dead in plane crash
Civil Air Patrol finds downed aircraft in Carter County Montana Sunday morning

[LTC Don]

Great Job Montana Wing!

What was that antenna array strapped to the strut about?  Haven't seen that setup before, especially on what looks like a G1000 182.

[Flying Pig]

Is that the antenna set up for the program to find lost Alzheimers/dementia patients? 

[sardak]

Great Job Montana Wing!

All operational resources came from Wyoming and South Dakota Wings. The plane was found in Montana.

Mike

[Майор Хаткевич]

Kittlemann also said the large amount of finger buttes in Montana may have caused the accident when paired with the low visibility conditions.

I have no idea what that is. I don't think I've ever even heard the word.

[THRAWN]

Kittlemann also said the large amount of finger buttes in Montana may have caused the accident when paired with the low visibility conditions.

I have no idea what that is. I don't think I've ever even heard the word.

A butte /bjuːt/ is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller than mesas, plateaus, and table landforms. In some regions, such as the Midwestern United States and Northwestern United States, the word is used for any hill.[citation needed] The word butte comes from a French word meaning "small hill"; its use is prevalent in the Western United States, including the southwest, where "mesa" is also used for the larger landform. Because of their distinctive shapes, buttes are frequently landmarks in plains and mountainous areas. In differentiating mesas and buttes, geographers use the rule of thumb that a mesa has a top that is wider than its height, while a butte has a top that is narrower than its height.[1]....COURTESY OF OUR WIKIPEDIA FRIENDS....

[Luis R. Ramos]

If you watched 40's, 50's and 60's cowboys and Indians movies, I am pretty sure yall saw mesas and buttes even though you did not know what they were called... Recall those, apply the definitions, and now you know why the buttes are called "finger buttes."

[Майор Хаткевич]

I'm 24, and just shy of 13 years in the States. Westerns are not something I've watched.

[Luis R. Ramos]

Ok, a hint.

Rent movies with John Wayne. Most when he portrayed a cowboy. He would also portray US Cavalry officers. Try these:

Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
The Big Trail
Rio Grande


Oh, my memory is failing me! I cannot remember others. Gregory Peck, Dean Martin... Randolph Scott.

Maybe also try Clint Eastwood, of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. He did a very large variety of films. Portrayed I think the name of his character was Detective Callahan in The Dirty Harry series. Clint in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; and I think For A Few Dollars More portrays an unnamed cowboy. The funny thing is that Clint's pictures are supposed to be American westerns yet were directed by Ennio Morricone, an Italian. Cannot remember though if it has Buttes...

[Eclipse]

I'm 24, and just shy of 13 years in the States. Westerns are not something I've watched.

Have you seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Devils's Tower is a butte.

[Майор Хаткевич]

I'm 24, and just shy of 13 years in the States. Westerns are not something I've watched.

Have you seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Devils's Tower is a butte.

I get it now. I assume finger buttes are smaller, similar to pillars? Google really didn't pull up any good images outside of fields...which is why I posted in the first place. Learn something new every day.

[AirAux]

Wait, what?  You are 24 and have posted over 200,000 posts on CAPTALK?  You do know there is a world out there, don't you??  Are you that little guy with the beard that sits on the mountain with the Campbell Soup recipes??

[ColonelJack]

Wait, what?  You are 24 and have posted over 200,000 posts on CAPTALK?  You do know there is a world out there, don't you??  Are you that little guy with the beard that sits on the mountain with the Campbell Soup recipes??

Um, he has posted 4,400 and change.  He wrote the post that was the 200,000th on the board, however.

Jack

[Майор Хаткевич]

Wait, what?  You are 24 and have posted over 200,000 posts on CAPTALK?  You do know there is a world out there, don't you??  Are you that little guy with the beard that sits on the mountain with the Campbell Soup recipes??

Um, he has posted 4,400 and change.  He wrote the post that was the 200,000th on the board, however.

Jack

What he said. A2Capt is the 300,000th post-maker: http://captalk.net/index.php?action=profile;u=1071


Posts:4,458 (1.562 per day)
Date Registered:07-02-2007, 22:26:31

It's actually amazing that I have as many as I do...over the years I've taken multi-month sabbaticals.

[LSThiker]

I get it now. I assume finger buttes are smaller, similar to pillars? Google really didn't pull up any good images outside of fields...which is why I posted in the first place. Learn something new every day.

Essentially, yes.  There is no official "finger butte" definition.  But generally, yes, the smaller pillar buttes or buttes that look more like a hand with fingers.

There is also an actual place in Montana called Finger Butte.  It is a mountain peak near Baker, MT.

[SarDragon]

Wait, what?  You are 24 and have posted over 200,000 posts on CAPTALK?  You do know there is a world out there, don't you??  Are you that little guy with the beard that sits on the mountain with the Campbell Soup recipes??

Um, he has posted 4,400 and change.  He wrote the post that was the 200,000th on the board, however.

Jack

What he said. A2Capt is the 300,000th post-maker: http://captalk.net/index.php?action=profile;u=1071


Posts:4,458 (1.562 per day)
Date Registered:07-02-2007, 22:26:31

It's actually amazing that I have as many as I do...over the years I've taken multi-month sabbaticals.

But you ARE in the top 10 in the post count.

[Fubar]

I'm glad the aircraft was found to help provide some closure to the community. Definitely a sad outcome.

Can we really strap whatever we want to the sides of our planes? I'd like to know what that antenna is for.

Lastly, and I obviously say this squarely planted in my armchair, if you're going to be interviewed by the media about the grim task of locating a crashed aircraft with fatalities, it would probably be best to not look so happy about it.

[Eclipse]

I thought the same thing.

[SarDragon]

It looks like some sort of DF antenna. Hard to tell w/o a better view.

[JacobAnn]

if you're going to be interviewed by the media about the grim task of locating a crashed aircraft with fatalities, it would probably be best to not look so happy about it.

I know the police receive training in this sort of thing.  I would think at least our PAOs do as well.