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Potosi Mountain is approximately 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Las Vegas in the Spring Mountains of Clark County, southern Nevada, United States. It is also called Double Up Mountain and Olcott Peak. [3] Its main bedrock is limestone. [4]
One of the most tragic incidents in Nevada concerns the terrible plane crash that killed Carole Lombard, a famous movie star and wife of Clark Gable. The crash occurred nearly 80 years ago, but fascinatingly enough, the plane crash site remains on southern Nevada's Mount Potosi.
Jan 23, 2017 · The world, was shocked by the death of Hollywood actress, Carole Lombard. On January 16 th, 1942 an airplane carrying Lombard crashed into Mount Potosi killing all 22 people on-board.
- Fred Wasser
Potosi Pass is a high mountain pass at an elevation of 1.905m (6,250ft) above the sea level, located in Clark County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Nestled in the Spring Mountains southwest of Las Vegas, the road to the summit is totally unpaved running through desert vegetation and some cliff walls.
Jan 15, 2017 · Mount Potosi, the 1942 DC-3 crash site that killed actress Carole Lombard and 21 others, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Christian K. Lee/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @chrisklee_jpeg. Lyle...
- Keith Rogers
Jan 10, 2002 · But 60 years almost to the day the anniversary is Wednesday after the 33-year-old actress was killed in a commercial airliner crash on Mount Potosi, southwest of Las Vegas, her name is largely...
[note 8] After refueling in Las Vegas, TWA Flight 3 took off at 7:07 p.m. and crashed into Double Up Peak near the 8,300-foot (2,530 m) level of Potosi Mountain, 32 statute miles (51 km) southwest of the Las Vegas airport. All 22 aboard, including Lombard, her mother, Winkler and 15 U.S. Army soldiers, were killed. [124] Lombard was 33 years old.
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