Two Men Uncover Mysterious Fate of Flight 980

15. Mummified Body Parts

A femur, roughly 14 inches long and so dry that it's almost mummified was found by one of their guides on somewhere along the eastern side of the mountain. They could even see the remnants of skin, muscle, and fat still attached. The bone had likely been encased in ice for the past 25 years until it began sliding down from the crash site, just as Dave and Isaac had suspected. Soon, after digging a cursory grave, the men found several more body parts: a tibia, and a piece of spinal column.

16. The Black Box

A few chunks of orange metal, colored to allow investigators to more easily identify it in the event of a crash, were indications that they were on the right track. The men followed the orange breadcrumbs until it led them to even more remnants of the crash, a broken steel beam and bits of glass. Then, after all, the gruesome sights and endless, rocky terrain, they found it, the Black Box of Flight 980…