Date:	Thursday 1 September 1955
Time:
Type:	Douglas VC-47D (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Air Force - USAF
Registration:	45-893
MSN:	34153/16896
Year of manufacture:	1945
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,6 km W of Skwentna, AK -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED)
Destination airport:	Nome Airport, AK (OME/PAOM)

Narrative:
The VC-47A transport plane operated on a cargo-personnel flight from Elmendorf AFB, Alaska to Nome, Alaska. The airplane crashed as it reportedly tried to divert to Skwentna Airstrip following engine problems.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
Chicago Tribune Sept. 3, 1955

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