ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335805
| Date: | Wednesday 22 August 1951 |
| Time: | 20:25 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-70-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-100668 |
| MSN: | 19131 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Summit, AK -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED) |
| Fairbanks-Eielson AFB, AK (EIL/PAEI) |
The C-47A crashed while en route from Elmendorf AFB to Eielson AFB. The aircraft radioed a position report at 20:20 to the Summit Airfield and requested a clearance to Fairbanks.
Not long after the aircraft crashed and burst into flames near the CAA administration building at Summit Airfield.
Sources:
Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)
El Litoral 23 August 1951, p2
Fairbanks Daily News Miner August 23,1951
Location
Images:
photo (c) Bill Larkins; San Francisco Airport, CA (SFO); February 1948
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