"Divers Examine Wreck of Plane in Salton Sea"

More from Jason. It's no Howard Hughes crash landing into Beverly Hills in his X-F11 Spy Plane, but it'll do.

Link: Navy records, which are fragmentary, indicate that four Wildcats, two Corsairs, two Hellcats, four patrol planes, two Helldivers and 10 Avengers crashed into the Salton Sea.

THAT KINDA DIE-OFF'S NO COINCIDENCE. AFTER A FEW CRASHED IN, THE AIR FORCE GOT A BIG IDEA: THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD STORE THOSE PLANES PACKED IN MEAT, PRESERVED BY A SALINITY HIGHER THAN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. LITTLE DID THEY REALIZE THAT THE DUST DON'T FIX RUST, AND THOSE PLANES WERE NEVER COMING BACK IN ONE PIECE.

1944-45: B-29s from the U.S. Army’s 393rd Heavy Bombardment Squadron, commanded by Lt. Col. Paul Tibbets, make regular but highly secret practice flights from Wendover Air Base in Utah and drop dummies of a new bomb into the Salton Sea. from http://www.saltonsea.ca.gov/histchron.htm