Archive photos: Airplane crashes in the Smoky Mountains 1956-2024

Paul Jones of the Federal Aviation Administration looks over the crash site on Dec. 2, 1997, where a Cessna 182 went down the previous day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Russell Field. The pilot, identified as Jeffrey Mann of New Berlin, Wis., did not survive the crash.
Paul Jones of the Federal Aviation Administration looks over the crash site on Dec. 2, 1997, where a Cessna 182 went down the previous day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Russell Field. The pilot, identified as Jeffrey Mann of New Berlin, Wis., did not survive the crash. (KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE)Paul Jones of the Federal Aviation Administration looks over the crash site on Dec. 2, 1997, where a Cessna 182 went down the previous day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Russell Field. The pilot, identified as Jeffrey Mann of New Berlin, Wis., did not survive the crash. (KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL ARCHIVE

Rescue workers examine the wreckage of a twin-engined Beechcraft that crashed killing six people on March 24, 1964, near Parsons Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One member of the rescue party looking for the crash site, National Park Service maintenance worker Frank E. Shults, 44, died after suffering an apparent heart attack while hiking to the scene.

The debris of a twin-engine Beechcraft that crashed on March 24, 1964, close to Parsons Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, killing six persons, is examined by rescue personnel. Frank E. Shults, a 44-year-old maintenance worker for the National Park Service, was one of the members of the rescue group searching for the accident site. He passed away after what appeared to be a heart attack while hiking to the area.

Rescue workers examine the wreckage of a twin-engined Beechcraft that crashed killing six people on March 24, 1964, near Parsons Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One member of the rescue party looking for the crash site, National Park Service maintenance worker Frank E. Shults, 44, died after suffering an apparent heart attack while hiking to the scene.

Joseph Fabick of St. Louis looks through the wreckage of a plane crash that killed six people including his two nieces on March 24, 1964, on Parsons Bald in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A member of the party looking for the crash site, National Park Service maintenance worker Frank E. Shults, 44, died from an apparent heart attack during the search.

The body of National Park Service maintenance worker Frank E. Shults, 44, is recovered after he suffered an apparent heart attack while hiking to the scene of a plane crash on March 24, 1964, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The crash of the twin-engined Beechcraft Model 18 killed six people, all from St. Louis

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