Snow-Scoured Escarpment (DC-3 crash site)

Jagged rocks protrude through thick snow packs on steep, snow-scoured slopes forming a mountain escarpment where a crippled DC-3 streaks in trailing smoke. An inflated emergency life raft bounces grotesquely off outcrops, yanking the plane before it kisses the cliff and erupts in a fiery mushroom cloud of twisted metal, earth, and debris. The crash ends aerial flight and strands survivors on frozen, unforgiving terrain below, the site's isolation amplifying their vulnerability.