Holston Mtn - Flight 308 Traditional Cache

Walking in the Air

We're floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I'm holding very tight I'm riding in the midnight blue
I'm finding I can fly so high above
with you Far across the wold
The villages go by like trees the rivers and the hills
The forest and the streams

One day another cacher, komatsu200,
was walking around on Holston mountain he came
across a place that was begging for a cache.

This place has a waterfall that is estimated to be about 60 feet
tall and a newly placed memorial that reads ( In memory of the 10
passengers and crew aboard flight 308 that lost there lives on
January 8,1959).

After doing some research on this flight he learned that it was a
twin-engine Southeast Airlines DC-3 that actually crashed just above the waterfall.
This ammo box cache is placed near this memorial.
There is no need for hammers, chisels, or explosives,
so please leave those at home.

If you get better coordinates please let me know.

The wreckage of the missing twin-engine Southeast Airlines
plane was spotted around noon today by a Tennessee Air National
Guard pilot.

He said the wrecked DC3 was located about 300 feet from the top of
Holston Mountain, according to a spokesman at the Kingsport office
of the Tennessee Highway Patrol.


Ground rescue parties were directed to the scene of the crash.

The plane, Flight 308 from Memphis, disappeared as it approached
Tri-Cities Airport (McKellar Field) for a landing at 8:32 p.m.Thursday.

WILLIAM GRAHAM, the airline's director of operations, issued
the following statement at 12:30 a.m.

"Southeast Airlines officially announces that Flight 308 of January 8,
operating a normal scheduled flight to terminate at Tri-Cities from
Memphis at 7:58 p.m., is overdue."

"The plane has fuel enough to last until 2 a.m. We are not giving
up any hope of locating the flight, and all efforts are being made
to contact it."

"In addition to airlines and Federal Aviation Agency radio
equipment, the Civil Air Patrol, state and county officers in four
states (Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina) are also
making efforts to make radio contact with the plane, which has
radio equipment capable of sending or receiving on these
bands."

"An official Southeast Airlines announcement will be forthcoming as
soon as contact is made with the plane."