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| Date: | Monday 17 January 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas Dakota III (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Royal Canadian Air Force - RCAF |
| Registration: | 987 |
| MSN: | 33115/16367 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 12 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 112 km SE of Churchill, MB -
 Canada
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Rivers Airport, MB (YYI) |
| Arctic Bay Airport, NU (YAB/CYAB) |
The Dakota III performed a forced landing on a rough and broken Hudson Bay icefield, 70 miles southeast of Churchill, MB.
The aircraft had drifted off course and ran out of fuel. It operated on a mercy flight from Rivers to Arctic Bay, Canada.
All 12 on board were rescued.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Western Star (Corner Brook, NL) 25 January 1949, p1
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 24 January 1949, p2
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