Alaska Glacier Debris ID’d as Long Lost AF C-124
Jun 28, 2012
Investigators say aircraft wreckage discovered this summer on a glacier in the mountains east of Anchorage came from an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing everyone on board.
The C-124 Globemaster carried 52 people, according to the Joint Prisoners of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command, which has military casualty experts looking at the debris.
By: J Boyle - 8th June 2017 at 13:46
Recently on Amazon, I saw a book written by one of the daughters of a crash victim which tells stories about the men who were lost and their families.
By: Newforest - 8th June 2017 at 06:55
https://www.armytimes.com/articles/search-for-remains-from-alaska-plane-crash-resumes-65-years-later
Still searching.
By: DavidIsby - 16th March 2016 at 11:59
By: Newforest - 26th February 2016 at 07:58
http://www.adn.com/article/20160224/air-force-identifies-2-victims-1952-colony-glacier-plane-crash
Two more bodies have now been identified, but thirty five persons are still ‘missing’.
By: DavidIsby - 4th November 2015 at 14:07
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By: J Boyle - 29th June 2012 at 04:53
Another case in which the crash site was known, but recovery efforts were deemed too dangerous:
Rememer that in 1952 the best helicopter they had in Alaska was probably the 2-4 seat H-5 (Dragonfly) with 450 hp,so not much power at that altitude.
So the best way to the galcier would have been by Super Cubs…which can’t carry much either.
By: Flying-A - 28th June 2012 at 23:37
Another case in which the crash site was known, but recovery efforts were deemed too dangerous:
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=7820
The search for this missing plane in similar terrain claimed five more lives:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/one-319237-patty-flight.html
By: jack windsor - 28th June 2012 at 19:41
Thats a qoute all our MOD officals and our MP,s should have tattooed across there foreheads” He did,nt die giving his life to this country,without us at least trying to bring him home”.
There,s waste at all levels -MP,s expenses, new computers that are years out of date when cancelled cause they can,t do what they were ordered for,but money well spent bringing our servicemen home can,t be found.
Thats one thing i admire the US for…
regards
jack…
By: J Boyle - 28th June 2012 at 19:22
Is this the one with the ‘gold’ on board? :diablo:
Not unless a C-54 turned into a C-124.
And I wasn’t around in the 50s, but I’m pretty sure the USAF never paid its payroll in gold…even in Alaska. 🙂
Butthe C-54 reportedly carried a payroll to Shemya (or someplace in the outer islands). Long before the current manditory automatic bank transfer system.
By: Newforest - 28th June 2012 at 15:43
Good to have it re-found.
When news of the preliminary rediscovey of the site was mentioned on another forum, I thought it might be the C-54 that crashed while transporting a military payroll in the 50s to a base in the Alutians.
Is this the one with the ‘gold’ on board? :diablo:
By: J Boyle - 28th June 2012 at 15:03
Good to have it re-found.
When news of the preliminary rediscovey of the site was mentioned on another forum, I thought it might be the C-54 that crashed while transporting a military payroll in the 50s to a base in the Alutians.
Nice article but the C-124 did not have four turboprops…
HP111…crashes like this certainly did hapen more than once, I’m sure we be surprised what’s still out there. Take a look at aircraft mishaps records from the 50s, there were major crashes almost weekly between airlines and various military forces.
By: nostalgair2 - 28th June 2012 at 14:43
missing lancastrian in Andes
S.T.E.N.D.E.C
By: HP111 - 28th June 2012 at 14:33
Gruesome, but nonetheless interesting. I am reminded of the Lancastrian that flew into a mountain side in the Andes, emerging in bits at the bottom of a glacier many years later. Apparently in a high speed impact into a hard mountain, aluminium airframes shatter into small pieces, get covered in a dusting of snow, and effectively disappear as far as an air search is concerned. It is interesting to know this sort of thing has happened more than once.
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