Excerpt from Las Vegas Review Journal dated 05/30/2015. Read the entire article here.
They dedicated a memorial that features a propeller to 14 men who died when a transport plane crashed near the snow-capped peak of Mount Charleston in November 1955 while headed to Area 51 to test the U-2 spy plane. The C-54 transport plane had flown off course in radio silence during a blizzard and clipped a ridge near the top of the 12,000-foot mountain.