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| Date: | Thursday 25 January 1962 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Air National Guard |
| Registration: | 42-100861 |
| MSN: | 19324 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 40 km N of Helena, MT -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Helena Airport, MT (HLN/KHLN) |
| Cut Bank Airport, MT (CTB/KCTB) |
A Douglas C-47A operated by the U.S National Guard crashed in Wolf Creek Canyon in a heavy snow storm.
The aircraft was carrying governor of Montana Donald Grant Nutter (46), his executive secretary and the State Agriculture Commissioner.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
The Free Lance-Star - Jan 27, 1962
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