ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334748
| Date: | Friday 3 February 1956 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada UC-1 Otter (DHC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 144260 |
| MSN: | 62 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Edward VII Peninsula -
 Antarctica
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Little America V |
| Mile 38 |
Two hours after leaving the Little America V scientific research base the Otter started picking up icing on the propeller. Subsequently the aircraft flew into the summit of a snow covered mountain on the Edward VII Peninsula in Antarctica. The survivors walked 40 miles of the 110 miles back to Little America V before being rescued by a helicopter.
Sources:
www.VAQ34.com
El Siglo de Torreón 10 February 1956, p15
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