ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336228
Date: | Tuesday 7 February 1950 |
Time: | 19:45 |
Type: | Douglas C-47D |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 45-1037 |
MSN: | 34306/17040 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 3558 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 24 km NW of Pon Lake, YT -
Canada
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Whitehorse Airport, YT (YXY/CYXY) |
Destination airport: | Whitehorse Airport, YT (YXY/CYXY) |
Narrative:The airplane departed Whitehorse Airport, YT (YXY) participating in a search for a Douglas C-54 that went missing January 26 near Snag, YT (Canada). Weather in the search area was overcast to broken. The airplane was caught in a downdraft and flew into the side of a mountain.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR) Mystery C-47 in the Yukon / By Ruud Leeuw Images:
photo (c) Murray Lundberg; 24 km NW of Pon Lake, YT; 12 July 2017
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