ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337212
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Date: | Saturday 7 September 1946 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47A (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Mt. McKinley Airfreight |
Registration: | NC91002 |
MSN: | 20227 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Nome, AK -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Fairbanks-Weeks Field, AK |
Destination airport: | Nome Airport, AK (OME/PAOM) |
Narrative:Weather at Nome was worse than previously reported to the crew. Trying to establish visual contact below 400 feet, the DC-3 drifted from the range shuttle legs and struck a fog shrouded mountain.
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