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
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	112 km SE of Churchill, MB -   Canada
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Rivers Airport, MB (YYI)
Destination airport:	Arctic Bay Airport, NU (YAB/CYAB)

Narrative:
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.

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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