Status: | |
Date: | Monday 3 November 1952 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3) |
Operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
Registration: | 43-15665 |
MSN: | 20131 |
First flight: | 1944 |
Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Damaged beyond repair |
Location: | Fletcher's Ice Island (Ice Station T3) ( Arctic Ocean)
|
Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | ? |
Destination airport: | ? |
Narrative:The C-47A 43-15665 was the first aircraft to land on North Pole ice on May 3, 1952. It later crashed at Ice Station T3, a manned scientific research station on an iceberg that drifted throughout the central Arctic Ocean.
Sources:
» The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Photos
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.