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(Continued From Page 1) . toma, Wash., to this base near Anchorage. Carrying enough fuel to remain airborne until 6 a. m. EST, the plane was letting down through the turbulent “southwest passage” for its landing here. The jixed pas sage is a precarious approach on which a plane must dodge 5,000-to 8,000-foot peaks looming up off the ends of each wing tip. Aboard the giant plane, capable of carying 200 troops 2,000 miles without refueling, were a crew of 11 and 41 passengers. The passen gers, one of them a doctor, were, returning to duty after furloughs, in the United States. ’ Pilot of the plane was Capt. Ken neth J. Duval, 37, Vallejo, Calif. His assistant was Capt. Alger M. Cheney, 32, Drubeck, Me. All the men were equipped with cold weather survival gear as the plane flew through near freezing temperatures over the area in which 98 persons were killed in 15 crashes in 52 days in 1951. The C-124 was heard from last over Middleton Island, 157 miles ‘southeast of Anchorage. It reported it was flying through a defense fog. ‘The closest emergency landing fields to Middleton Island are at Cordova, 70 miles northeast and Yakutat, 232 miles east. The Globe master was unreported at both places. Rain and possibly snow was fore peash for the Anchorage area today, complicating the search effort. Two B-17 rescue planes of the 10th Air Rescue Squadron were out ,looking for the lost plane, and 1a to 20 other planes took off at dawn (1:20 p. m. EST) on a full-scale search for possible survivors. The worst previous Northwest disaster this year occured Jan. 19 on the same route taken by the missing Globemaster. A Korea air lift plane flying servicemen home crashed at Sand Spit, B. C., killing 36 of 43 persons aboard. Three Air Force men later lost their lives when their B-17 rescue plane crash ed in Washington State’s Olympic Mountains. A C-119 Flying Boxcar crashed near the top of 13,000-foot Mount Silverthrone last Nov. 7, killing all 19 persons aboard. Still missing was another C-119 with 20 men aboard which disap peared Nov. 15 on a flight from Elmendorf to Kodiak, Alaska. The search continued but Air Force au thorities feared all aboard were killed.
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Panama City News
Panama City, Florida, US
Mon, Nov 24, 1952
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