Another C-47 / DC-3 crash site in the Yukon
A post a couple of days ago in one of the history groups I belong to was a query about a C-47 / DC-3 crash that I hadn’t heard about. The thought was that it is in the Richardson Mountains along the Yukon’s Arctic Coast.
The query was prompted by this photo in the book “Flying the Yukon Bush” by Kit Cain. The photo was shot in 1962.
My initial search for a crash report came up empty. Once I looked in the right place with the right search terms, though, it only took me a few more minutes to find it. Here’s the article in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner of January 17, 1958.
To go further in finding information, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says “To find the report of an investigation that began in 1990 or earlier, contact Library and Archives Canada.” However, I found a basic record of the crash at the Aviation Safety Network – it records the registration as N75391, a C-47D built in 1944 (construction number 26366), but other sites disagree with that construction number’s history.
If any of you researchers really have lots of time on your hands, that area is posted online at high resolution, and a DC-3 should show up well. Here’s the area where the crash is according to the newspaper report – click here to open the hi-res map in a new window.
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