ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339478
| Date: | Monday 18 September 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Northwest Airlines |
| Registration: | 43-15738 |
| MSN: | 20204 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 19 / Occupants: 19 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mt. Deception, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Anchorage (unknown airport), AK |
| Fairbanks International Airport, AK (FAI/PAFA) |
The C-47 was approximately 35 miles off course en route from Anchorage to Fairbanks, Alaska. The crew apparently was flying at 12,000 feet when they encountered a severe downdraft, which forced them to go on instruments into the clouds. The C-47 hit belly first with the fuselage splitting open, then slid down a precipitous slope coming to rest a third of a mile down from the point of impact.
Sources:
1947 Mount Deception C-47 Wreck
USAAS-USAAC-USAAF-USAF Aircraft Serial Numbers--1908 to Present / Joe Baugher
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