![]() ![]() The skis and wheels hit a shallow river bank and buckled, and the It did get airborne twice, butĭid not gain enough height. Performance, and the aircraft simply failed to get airborne properly. These factors resulted in a very poor take-off To make matters worse, the aircraft was overloaded, there was a slight crosswind,Īnd the airstrip was covered with five inches of snow. But the captain didn't think it necessary to de-ice the wings, and only the windshield was In short, theĬ-47 had been parked at the airstrip all night, during which time quite a bit of ice had accumulated There are many interesting details to be found in this report. It is taken from the official accident report. This photo, taken shortly after the crash, show the aircraft in its original nose-down position. Whitten (Major General, USAF, Commanding) Report by Jesse Auton (Colonel, USAF, Commanding) ![]() Fiske (Base Executive Officer, Isachsen Station) ![]() The omitted pages 3, 8 and 21-27 did not contain any relevant information.Ĭlick on the page numbers to view the page.ĭescription of the Accident (Recommendations)Īirplane Flight Report (Description of damage) Which contained the seven most important pages. Initially I obtained an extract of the report through Mike Stowe of Accident-Report.Com, Many photos taken by the captain shortly after the accident, routing slips, memos, The full report consists of no less than 45 pages, including This date finally enabled me to obtain an extract of the official crash report, Interesting reading, and gives a good impression of what actually happened. It later turned out to be not entirely accurate (as is common with such articles), it does make for some Interesting account of the crash, describing the crash itself and the circumstances that led to it. It was issued by the Canadian military, and gave a fairly detailed and Yet another helpful weather station veteran. Then I received a news article of some sorts from This didn't help much.Ĭlose-up shot taken by Merlin Mac Aulay, showing even more detail. October 1949, which was also mentioned in the Air-Britain DC-3 monograph. Unfortunately they were unable to offer any other information than a salvage date of 14 Have the staff to deal with these kinds of inquiries, but they nevertheless told me what their records The researchers at the Air Force Historical The aircraft that still lies at Isachsen today has been identified as C-47A 43-16062 msnĢ0528. So, thanks to these veterans, the most important part of the mystery had been solved Of course this too showed the same tail number. I also receivedĪ photo from another member, Merlin Mac Aulay. This clearly showed the tail number "316062". The photographer, Jay Gatlin, who very kindly rescanned his old polaroid photo in a much higher resolution. Manager of the site, Don Shanks, was very willing to help. The photo was posted on the website of JAWS veterans, who had all served at one of the Less of an arctic taste to it, but because of that it reveals a lot more interesting details. The total lack of snow makes for a huge difference with Jay's photo. This highly detailed photograph was taken by Merlin Mac Aulay, during All I found was an old photo of the wreck, partly buried in snow, and I learned nothing useful from a quick search in the books and only very little from Google and other Which C-47 was this? And how did it end up there? The Answers Was still there in 2005, fifty years later. Wreck of a USAF C-47 that had crashed at Isachsen during the 1950's. The interesting part of this news release was that this patrol was to includeĪn emergency response exercise simulating an air crash, and that this simulation was to focus on the Isachsen reportedly has the worst weather in Canada. Was one of the so-called Joint Arctic Weather Stations (JAWS), a network of remote arctic weather stations, built shortly after World War II,Īnd jointly operated by Canada and the United States. Weather station at Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island, in the extreme northern parts of the country. Out a sovereignty patrol in April 2005, operating out of a now abandoned Click on the photo for a larger image.ĭated 16 March 2005, the Canadian Forces announced they would be carrying It was taken inġ965, probably in April, by a veteran from the Isachsen weather The photo as initially found on the internet. ![]()
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