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It's been reported that the aircraft was a C-124A enroute from ANC to McChord AFB that disappeared after taking off from Elmendorf with 41 pax and a crew of 11 on Nov. 22, 1952. The report stated it appears the aircraft went straight into the glacier at crusing speed with only the tail grouping remaining more or less intact including the s/n.

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Here's an article from the AP:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/glacier-plane-wreckage-was-1950s-cargo-plane-crash

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Matt

12 Miles from the crash site.



On this flight, it carried 52 men, mostly Air Force and Army personnel and at least one from the Marine Corps and one from the Navy

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2012/06/27/2522442/p ... rylink=cpy

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

Updates with some photos and video.

http://www.adn.com/2012/07/12/2540264/m ... -from.html

http://community.adn.com/?q=adn/node/161738

http://www.dvidshub.net/video/149034/al ... ny-glacier

http://www.dvidshub.net/video/148998/co ... AAZ05HAH7c

http://www.dvidshub.net/video/149003/gr ... AAZ9ZHAH7c

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Well if I can't rollerskate around my playpen while smoking and drinking a beer, I'm staying home..

I'll bet that team is invisible against the terrain background at 150'....if I was down one of those holes I'd be wearing a blaze orange suit with a flashing pink light on top of my helmet!