ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336027
| Date: | Wednesday 22 November 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3C |
| Owner/operator: | New Tribes Mission |
| Registration: | N74586 |
| MSN: | 19711 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Moran, WY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Chico Airport, CA (CIC/KCIC) |
| Billings Municipal Airport, MT (BIL/KBIL) |
The DC-3C crashed into a mountain in fog. Three crew, eight children and ten adults were killed. Last radio contact was at 15:48.
A rescue party located the wreckage on November 25, at an elevation of 3414 m, but the extreme location of the crash made it impossible to recover the plane or the bodies.
Sources:
The Day 22 November 1950, p1
Toledo Blade 22 November 1950, p1
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