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The 1952 Mount Gannett C-124 crash was an accident in which a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II military transport aircraft of the United States Air Force crashed into Mount Gannett, a peak in the Chugach Mountains in the American state of Alaska, on November 22, 1952. All of the 52 people on board were killed.
Its crew members were injured, but there were no fatalities. The pilot walked 13 km to the Alaska Highway and flagged down a truck to call in support for his 5–8 crewmates. [4] [7] On 7 February, a C-47D, 45-1037, from Eielson Air Force Base employed on the search by the 5010th Wing, crashed on a mountain slope south of Aishihik Lake. There ...
Army and Air Force searched for missing plane by air and ground for days but no trace of the plane, pilot, or navigator were ever found. Those lost were Oma Gordon Capps & an unknown navigator. [110] October 26, 1944: P-51 Mustang: 1 Unknown North Pacific Ocean (Santa Monica Bay)
The moment a fighter jet crashed at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska has been caught on camera. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Eielson Air Force Base shared in a press release that a F-35 Lightning II ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., April 5 – Six servicemen, one a reservist who went along “just for the ride,” were killed today when an Air Force C-45 plane crashed and burned high atop a 9,000-foot mountain. The plane was attached to the Sandia atomic weapons base here and five of those aboard were stationed at the base.
Federal investigators are searching for a missing piece of an Alaska Airlines aircraft’s fuselage that blew off as they investigate what led to the horrifying midair ordeal that has resulted in ...
Another C-17 served as a memorial to the lost airmen during the Arctic Thunder Air Show, three days after the crash.. The four crew members on board all died; they were majors Michael Freyholtz and Aaron Malone, pilots assigned to the Alaska ANG's 249th Airlift Squadron; Captain Jeffrey Hill, a pilot assigned to Elmendorf's active-duty Air Force's 517th Airlift Squadron; and Senior Master ...
The plane that crashed Tuesday was built in Chicago around 1942 and saw service with the U.S. Army Air Force, the U.S. Navy and the Royal Air Force, before a California company took ownership in ...