ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337212
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| Date: | Saturday 7 September 1946 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Mt. McKinley Airfreight |
| Registration: | NC91002 |
| MSN: | 20227 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Nome, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Fairbanks-Weeks Field, AK |
| Nome Airport, AK (OME/PAOM) |
Weather at Nome was worse than previously reported to the crew. Trying to establish visual contact below 400 feet, the DC-3 drifted from the range shuttle legs and struck a fog shrouded mountain.
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