As we have seen on other occasions, the remains of aircraft accidents in remote places can remain there for decades.<\/p>\n
This is the case of a Douglas C-47D Skytrain transport aircraft built in 1945 and operated by the United States Air Force (USAF)<\/strong>, which took off from Whitehorse Airport in the Yukon Territory of Canada on February 7, 1950. Its mission was to search for the surviving crew of another transport aircraft<\/strong>, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster of the US Marines<\/a> (42-72469), which had disappeared on January 26 of that year near Snag, also in the Yukon Territory, with 44 people on board. The wreckage of this C-54 and its occupants was never found<\/a>, despite one of the largest search operations in North America.<\/p>\n During this search operation, three C-47s crashed<\/strong>, two USAF (on 30 January and 7 February 1950) and one Royal Canadian Air Force (on 16 February 1950). All three accidents resulted in no fatalities. The second of these accidents involved a USAF C-47D<\/strong>, serial number 45-1037 (MSN 34306\/17040), which encountered bad weather on 7 February and was eventually driven into a mountainside by a downdraft northwest of Pon Lake in a remote mountainous area of \u200b\u200bthe Yukon Territory. Following the crash, the pilot of 45-1037 drove 18 kilometres to a highway in Alaska<\/a>, where he was picked up by a truck driver, which led to the rescue of the other nine occupants of the plane.<\/p>\n Today, the wreckage of that C-47D remains at the site where it crashed in 1950.<\/strong> The plane\u2019s fuselage is relatively intact but heavily polished due to wind and rain erosion, but its American cockades and serial number can still be identified in the driftwood. A few days ago, Foresty Forest<\/a> posted a video of a tour of the wreckage of that plane:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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