On the 6th day, a search airplane lifted off from the original airport and rather then do a normal extension out, for some reason they started banking earlier,, as they did, they spotted the comanche about 100' of the runmway in solid trees. I was there about 2 hours later. From the investigation,, the plane had come down, at full rpm, chopping up 1 tree on the way down. the rest of the trees around, other then a few broken barnches didn't show anything.
Sounds like an accident that occured at FTY (Charlie Brown - Fulton County, GA, Airport) many years ago. Airplane took off on the short runway that is downhill into the river (the 'hooch) and crashed on the riverbank. In the ensuing CAP search, no one bothered to look so close to the airport. Someone finally noticed it. Apparently the tower controller did not notice that it had disappeared and he wasn't talking to it.
Charles
