- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | March 12, 1948 |
Time: | 2114 |
Location: | Mt. Sanford, Alaska |
Operator: | Northwest Orient Airlines |
Flight #: | 4422 |
Route: | Anchorage - New York City |
AC Type: | Douglas DC-4 (C-54G-1-DO) |
Registration: | NC95422 |
cn / ln: | 35966/DO360 |
Aboard: | 30 (passengers:24 crew:6) |
Fatalities: | 30 (passengers:24 crew:6) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | On a charter flight from Lunghwa Airport, Shanghai to La Guardia Airport, New York the plane crashed into the western slope of Mt. Sanford at an altitude of 11,000 feet after taking off from Anchorage, Alaska. Pilot's failure to see Mt. Sanford due to obscuring clouds or aurora borealis while flying a course off the airway. |
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