{"id":21834983,"date":"2026-09-12T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/huefifirn-glacier-aircraft-wreck-1963-switzerland-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T11:00:50","slug":"huefifirn-glacier-aircraft-wreck-1963-switzerland-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/huefifirn-glacier-aircraft-wreck-1963-switzerland-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00fcfifirn: A Swiss Glacier Gives Back a Plane Lost in 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>A walker in the Swiss canton of Uri came across something metallic lying on the ice near the H&uuml;fifirn glacier and called the police. The police called the accident investigators. The investigators confirmed it was light alloy from an aircraft.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then came the part that makes this more than a curiosity. Nobody had lost an aircraft there recently. The last one went in more than sixty years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The glacier has simply melted far enough to give it back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 24px;margin:26px 0;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#222\">Kurzinfo<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.7\"><strong>Wo:<\/strong> the H&uuml;fifirn glacier, near the Clariden pass between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus<br>\r\n<strong>Found by:<\/strong> a hiker, who alerted the Uri cantonal police<br>\r\n<strong>Confirmed by:<\/strong> the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (SUST), which identified the material as aircraft light alloy<br>\r\n<strong>Police statement:<\/strong> issued 9 September 2026<br>\r\n<strong>Recovered:<\/strong> 3 September 2026 &mdash; roughly 250 kilogrammes of material<br>\r\n<strong>Probable origin:<\/strong> an aircraft that crashed there in 1963. A definitive identification was not initially possible<br>\r\n<strong>The likely aircraft:<\/strong> according to SRF, citing SUST records, a Piper PA-18 Super Cub that crashed while attempting to recover another aircraft. Nobody was hurt in either accident<br>\r\n<strong>What happens to it:<\/strong> the parts are being disposed of by a recycling firm, not preserved<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Two crashes, one day apart<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The sequence reported by SRF, drawing on SUST records, is almost farcical and entirely believable to anyone who has flown in mountains.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>First a light aircraft built by Champion came down on the H&uuml;fifirn. The following day an aircraft sent to help recover it crashed too. That second aircraft was a Piper Super Cub. Neither accident injured anyone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The first aeroplane was eventually recovered. The Super Cub was not, and it is the Super Cub that the ice has now surrendered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/piper-pa-18-super-cub.jpg\" alt=\"A Piper PA-18 Super Cub on a grass airfield\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Piper PA-18 Super Cub. Light, slow, superbly short-field, and for decades the standard tool for flying into places in the Alps where nothing else could go. Not the accident aircraft. Photo: Felix K&ouml;nig \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The police were matter-of-fact about why the wreck was left there in the first place.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;That was not unusual in accidents in alpine terrain that was difficult to access, given the limited technical means available at the time.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Uri Cantonal Police<\/strong> &mdash; statement of 9 September 2026, translated from German<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In 1963 there was no heavy-lift helicopter standing by to sling a broken aeroplane off a high Alpine glacier. If nobody was hurt and the aircraft was written off, it stayed where it was and the snow covered it. Within a season it was gone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why a Super Cub was up there at all<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>A modern reader might wonder what a small fabric-covered taildragger was doing on a glacier. The answer is that in Switzerland in 1963, that was the aircraft for the job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Hermann Geiger, the Valais pilot universally known as the glacier pilot, had spent the 1950s proving that a Piper PA-18 fitted with skis could land on and take off from Alpine glaciers. He flew more than six hundred rescue missions doing it, and he made mountain aviation in Switzerland a practical discipline rather than a stunt.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Geiger died in 1966. By then a generation of Swiss pilots had followed him onto the ice, and recovering a downed aircraft from a glacier with a Super Cub was an entirely ordinary thing to attempt. Sometimes, as the H&uuml;fifirn shows, it did not work.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gbw0ANC9fGo\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-10px\">Hermann Geiger landing on Alpine glaciers, filmed in 1958. In French.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The glacier is the real story<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Wreckage emerging from Swiss ice is no longer a freak event. As Alpine glaciers retreat they are steadily handing back what they swallowed: aircraft, climbing equipment, and in several well-documented cases the bodies of people who disappeared decades ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Each find is a small, precise measurement. This one says that the ice at the point where an aeroplane came to rest in 1963 has now thinned enough for the wreck to sit on the surface, sixty-three years later.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There will be no museum piece. The roughly 250 kilogrammes of aluminium recovered on 3 September is going to a recycling firm, which is a slightly melancholy end for an aircraft that spent six decades in a glacier. It is also, in fairness, exactly what you would do with sixty-year-old crumpled airframe metal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The mountain kept it a long time. Then it changed its mind.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zlz4Ddzokw0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin-top:-10px\">A short documentary on Hermann Geiger and the origins of Alpine glacier flying. In German.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Kantonspolizei Uri statement of 9 September 2026, Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (SUST), SRF, aeroTELEGRAPH.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px\">\r\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/die-seltsamsten-flugzeugfriedhofe-der-welt\/\">Die seltsamsten Flugzeugfriedh\u00f6fe der Welt<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/lady-sei-gut-b-24-libysche-wuste\/\">Der Bomber, den die W\u00fcste 15 Jahre lang behielt<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/regent-viceroy-seaglider-first-crewed-flight-ground-effect\/\">REGENT Viceroy: The Electric Seaglider That Flies as a Boat<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hiker found aircraft wreckage on the H\u00fcfifirn glacier. 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