Date: | Friday 3 February 1956 |
Time: | |
Type: | de Havilland Canada UC-1 Otter (DHC-3) |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 144260 |
MSN: | 62 |
Year of manufacture: | 1955 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Edward VII Peninsula -
Antarctica
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Little America V |
Destination airport: | Mile 38 |
Narrative:Two hours after leaving the Little America V scientific research base the Otter started picking up icing on the propeller. Subsequently the aircraft flew into the summit of a snow covered mountain on the Edward VII Peninsula in Antarctica. The survivors walked 40 miles of the 110 miles back to Little America V before being rescued by a helicopter.
Sources:
www.VAQ34.com El Siglo de Torreón 10 February 1956, p15
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