Accident Douglas C-47A-85-DL (DC-3) 43-15594,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334870
 

Date:Wednesday 29 June 1955
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Douglas C-47A-85-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:United States Air Force - USAF
Registration: 43-15594
MSN: 20060
Year of manufacture:1944
Fatalities:Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:Sitkinak Island, AK -   United States of America
Phase: En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Kodiak Airport, AK (ADQ/PADQ)
Destination airport:Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED)
Narrative:
Crashed into a mountainside, killing all ten on board.

Sources:

Daily Sitka Sentinel, June 30, 1955
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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