Atleo Air And The Full Moon

This is the plane that went down. I found that I had shot this last December 2nd. I’m going to leave it here,I want to think of it in this way.
I think it shows a beautiful moment.
(and no,this is not photo shopped)
It’s a cropped shot . I shot this early December 2nd. The moon was setting as the sun was rising. The moon set at 8:39 am that day. There was some thin clouds obscuring the moon’s face as well.
He happened to be taking off when I was out and I did a series of shots.
He was about 1 mile away when I shot this with my big lens. It compresses the foreground and background.Thats why the moon looks so large.

Advertisements

Barge Coming Back to Tofino

This barge went out with a crane and picked up the wreckage. They found the plane in about 45 feet of water.
It was a very sad day today and the weather reflected that.
The Native village,Opitsat can be seen on Meares Island in the background.

Coming Home

The barge was going slowly through Tofino’s harbour.
The plane was under the blue tarp.
Tofino has had a few deaths this year. Very unfortunate.

Preparing To Unload

They docked and were preparing to lift.
The RCMP boat was cruising in the background and a news crew was filming in the bottom right foreground.

Unloading Pontoons

The first lift was the pontoons.

Pontoons

They put the Pontoons on a flatbed,wrapped it and they were gone in minutes.
The Pontoons are upside down right now.
Notice how the right hand pontoon is bent and the left is not.
I also noticed that about 3 feet of the pontoons nose is gone.

Unloading of Main Fuselage

The second lift was the motor and the third was the main fuselage.