Date:	Friday 5 February 1954
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47D (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	45-895
MSN:	34155/16898
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 16
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	32 km N of Curry, AK -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Fairbanks-Fort Wainwright Airport, AK (FBK/PAFB)
Destination airport:	Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED)

Narrative:
The C-47D transport plane crashed on a snow covered hillside in Alaska. Six men were rescued by bush pilots.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Toledo Blade - Feb 6, 1954
The Tuscaloosa News - Feb 9, 1954
Chicago Tribune Feb. 7, 1954

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