1949 AT-6 Plane Crash in Newbury, NH

Here is a video clip that i took after i hiked in 1 1/4 mi, to the crash site on Blood Mtn in Newbury, NH. This plane crashed on Nov 20, 1949 while piloted by John Moses while flying from Bridgeport, Conn to Boston, Mass...Some how he got lost in the low clouds and ended up crashing in western, NH just about 1 mile from Mount Sunapee. The plane wreckage was found the next day by a pilot and State Trooper that took off from Parlin Field in Newport, NH.

Harold Bunker the pilot circled the crash site for an hour as the State trooper and newspaper reporter that spent the night in the woods hike 2 ridges over and then found the crash site. Messages was relayed for a stretcher to be sent up the mountain but the body was found in a heap so they kinda knew the outcome.

The crash site is actually 100' below the ridge line on Blood Mtn overlooking the valley where blood brook runs down.

I was pretty shakey in the video as i just did the all uphill hike in 40 minutes to the crash site ending up with the last 1/4 mile of almost in an area so steep on the hill you needed to grab trees to climb up.hould have waited 10 minutes to catch my breath.

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• Texas AT-6
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[ricglos]

hey, newport kid, i DID look it up, and the navy version was the snj and the USAF , was at-6 texan and the canadian version was the harvard, and they are the SAME AIRPLANE!!!!! WOW THANKS FOR MAKING ME THINK FOR A CHANGE, HAHA!

[TheNewportKid]

@ricglos yeah usually i am a war historian about a lot of things but this was a brain stumper but i asked a local historian of the aea and he said that is was a At-6 Texian. But glad that you found your answear.

[ricglos]

SNJ, or AT-6

I thought the NAVY version was the SNJ, MAYBE IM WRONG??

[TheNewportKid]

@ricglos Im not a 100% sure but it was from newspaper reports an I think this was used around the post World War erabut i do know that the navy was using that but if you look up on the planes at this time you might find your answer.

[24chancer]

did the piolet die

[TheNewportKid]

@24chancer yes the pilot had died on impact to the mountain but You could not really blame the plane because it was foggy when he was flying so he got lost and chrash by the time he had relized he was near a mountain.

[BirchMapleResearch]

Forgot to add at about 1/2 mile after the first sharp turn stay left at fork in road.

[BirchMapleResearch]

The last 1/2 of a mile your driving all uphill before blood brook and you will see a sharp turn in the road=don't take that left at the sharp turn that goes to the Ledge's on Bald Mtn. You will now start to go downhill driving continue about 200 yards more and then you will see the left just before blood brook=Park there/should see the bridge across blood brook. Follow road you just parked at to log landing and continue all the way uphill to the site.

[BirchMapleResearch]

During the summer time you could drive a car VERY CAREFULLY out center road in Goshen, NH that will go from tar to dirt and back to tar up the last hill drivable on that road to the end at a turn around like and then it will be dirt again. You will then notice its rocky driving up the hill at 2/3 mi in stay right at the sharp cornert and then the next 1 1/4 miles in your still driving to blood brook=cannot miss it/is only bridge on road=from brook its a 1 1/4+ Mile hike uphill to the crash site.

[ournhmission]

@BirchMapleResearch

Thank you so much. I hope in the spring we can do this hike. So you have to walk up the log road or is it accessible by car? Sorry, might be a stupid question. Thank you again!

[BirchMapleResearch]

Following log road 1 mile up the mountain you will come to a dump truck size boulder on your left about 100' off the skid road. Looking the way the logging road is still going/Now at a 11 O'Clock position the plane is .11 Miles ahead.

[BirchMapleResearch]

I was the one that took the video and added it to my son's account at the time.

This is the coordinates to the crash site.

Body + Wings of plane

N 43* 17.888

W 072* 04.479

The motor is farther up near the top of the mountain as seen in the video= Coordinates

N 43* 17.908

W 072* 04.473

Generally you will park at the first left road just before Blood brook bridge. hike in about 300 yards and you will come to an 2+ acre log landing and continue acroos that and keep following log road.

[ournhmission]

My brothers and a good friend have been trying to find this site for years. Can anyone give us landmarks? Directions? Where do we start the hike? How do we get there? Any help please???? We want to find this.....Help!!!!!

[LivielGeorge]

This isn't history class lmao xD