30 Lost When Airliner Crashes
Beceived Sunday, 8.50 p.ni. WAN FBANClfSCO, March 13. The shattered and burned wreckage of a North-west Airiines plane which was enroute from Shanghai to Edmonton was located to-day at the foot of a glacier on Mount Sanford, 200 miies east of Anchorage, Alaska, wliieh is ro the right of the course tlie plane was scheduled to follow. Low-flying rescue planes. reported that there was no possible chance oi survivors. The. plane carried % 24 passengers and six of a crew. The plane apparently smashed into the 16,20*8 foot Mount Sanford at about 11,000 feet. The wreckage then slid .3,000 feet down the precipitons mountainside m flames and was shattered on the canyon bottom at the foot of the glacier. ' The region of erash is that rug'ged that it is reported to be aceessible only by a ski equipped plane or by a hazardous overland dog team trip. The passengers were the crew of a tanker being brought back from Shanghai where they ■ had delivered the vesseh . " ^
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 March 1948, Page 3
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