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| Date: | Tuesday 22 November 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-1-DC (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Air Force - USAF |
| Registration: | 42-72474 |
| MSN: | 10579 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 48 km E of Kelso, WA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM) |
| Portland-Columbia Airport, OR (PDX/KPDX) |
Missing. Discovered crashed on Mount St. Helens 30 November 1949.
Sources:
Passauer Neue Presse 24 November 1949, p1
AAIR
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 1 December 1949, p2
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