ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335825
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| Date: | Saturday 21 July 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-4 |
| Owner/operator: | Canadian Pacific Air Lines - CPAL |
| Registration: | CF-CPC |
| MSN: | 10327 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 37 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Sitka, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Vancouver International Airport, BC (YVR/CYVR) |
| Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED) |
The C-54 departed Vancouver at 18:53 for a flight to Tokyo, the first intermediate stop being Anchorage, Alaska.
At the Cape Spencer intersection in British Columbia, 90 minutes out from Anchorage, it gave an estimate of 24:00 for Yakutat in Alaska. The weather in the area was heavy rain and icing conditions with a visibility of 500 feet.
Nothing further was heard from the aircraft, and at 00:44 an emergency warning was issued when the aircraft was overdue to report.
Search for the aircraft was abandoned on 31 October 1951.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "As no traces of the aircraft or its occupants has been found to date the cause of the disappearance has not been determined."
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