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On 26 January 1950, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster serial number 42-72469 disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard. [1] [2] The aircraft made its last radio contact two hours into its eight-hour flight. Despite one of the largest rescue efforts carried out by a joint effort between Canadian and US military forces, no trace ...
Missing Aircraft; Date: July 21, 1951 () Summary: Disappeared, possibly due to icing conditions: Site: probably Alaska, U.S. Aircraft; Aircraft type: Douglas DC-4 (former C-54A/R5D-1) Operator: Canadian Pacific Air Lines on behalf of the United Nations: Registration: CF-CPC: Flight origin: Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia ...
Douglas DC-4 of Pacific Western Airlines in 1959. The Douglas DC-4 is a piston-engine airliner and transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1942 to 1947. The type was originally designed as a commercial airliner, but until the end of World War II, all were built as military transports. After the war, many of these military ...
The Douglas C-54 Skymaster is a four-engined transport aircraft used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the Korean War. Like the Douglas C-47 Skytrain derived from the DC-3, the C-54 Skymaster was derived from a civilian airliner, the Douglas DC-4. Besides transport of cargo, the C-54 also carried presidents, prime ...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Douglas C-54 Skymaster airplane carrying two people crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday and burst into flames, authorities said.
A United States Air Force Douglas C-124A Globemaster II, 49–244, c/n 43173, of the 2d Strategic Support Squadron, Strategic Air Command, en route from Gander, Newfoundland, to RAF Mildenhall, [89] missing over the Atlantic Ocean; wreckage found near Ireland. 53 went MIA, including Gen. Paul T. Cullen and his command staff, en route to his ...
Pacific Ocean off Alaska US Navy aircraft went missing on patrol out of NAS Sand Point. [93] July 14, 1942: Lockheed C-60 Lodestar (VHCAD) 3: Unknown Australia RAAF aircraft lost without trace between Townsville and Cooktown. [94] August 17, 1942: Short Sunderland (L2158) 9: Unknown off Sierra Leone RAF aircraft missing off Sierra Leone while ...
Federal investigators say the footage would have shown repair work being done on the door plug of the failed Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 plane. ... Douglas Jones . March 14, 2024 at 12:28 PM ...