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Douglas C-54 plane with 2 people on board crashes into river outside Fairbanks, Alaska. April 23, 2024 at 6:35 PM. ... The C-54 is a military version of the Douglas DC-4, which was a World War II ...
The plane, a Douglas DC-4, smashed into the Tanana River near to the Fairbanks International Airport at around 10.40am local time, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told The Independent ...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Douglas DC-4 airplane crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers said. It was not immediately known how many people were on board. The website www.airlines.net said standard passenger seating for a DC-4 was 44 during its heyday, but most have been converted to freighters.
The roughly 80-year-old plane departed Fairbanks just before 10 a.m., loaded with 3,200 gallons (12,100 liters) of heating oil destined for Kobuk, an Inupiat village of less than 200 people ...
An Air Algérie DC-4 (7T-VAU) struck the side of a mountain near Tamanrasset Airport while flying too low, killing 35 of 39 on board. [157] 3 June 1967 An Air Ferry C-54A (G-APYK) crashed into Mont Canigou on a flight from Manston Airport, England to Perpignan, France. All 88 aboard were killed, the greatest fatalities of any DC-4 crash. 19 ...
April 23 – A Douglas DC-4 crashes into the Tanana River, shortly after takeoff from Fairbanks, killing two people on board. [4] July 24 – The North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepts two Russian and two Chinese bomber aircraft flying together near Alaska, marking the first record of Chinese H-6 aircraft entering Alaska's Air ...
Pan Am Flight 923 was a Douglas DC-4 operating from Seattle, Washington to Juneau, Alaska, which crashed into Tamgas Mountain on Annette Island, Alaska, on October 26, 1947. All 18 passengers and crew on board were killed. The crash was the worst in Alaskan commercial aviation at the time, as well as the first crash of a Pan Am four-engine ...
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A Douglas DC-4 airplane crashed into the Tanana River near Fairbanks on Tuesday, Alaska State Troopers said. It was not immediately known how many people were on board. The website www.airlines.net said standard passenger seating for a DC-4 was 44 during its heyday, but most have been converted to freighters.