C-87 in Quebec?

Tiger Tim · **Posted:** Sun May 29, 2011 1:58 pm

Hey all, I saw this asked on another forum but thought I'd turn it over to the experts here.

In Gann's Fate is the Hunter (chapter 12) there is a C-87 that made an emergency landing on a frozen lake in Quebec. I can't find the book right now but I seem to remember it got left behind after the crew was rescued. Do I have that right and if so, would much of the airplane still be there?

-Tim

TonyM · **Posted:** Sun May 29, 2011 3:38 pm

When did it happen? Day-month-year.

What was the pilot's name?

Do you have a serial number for the AC?

Give me some info and I can try and find the accident report.

TM

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 746

As far as I recall, there were two C-87s stuck in the chapter "Cold".

One was the C-87 that got lost and became the basis for the movie "Island in the Sky", and after the crew and PAX were rescued, the aircraft was flown out.

THe other got stranded at an unfinished airfield as it encountered problems searching for the others, something about fuel starvation or a vent taped off and I believe it, too, was flown out.

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Mon May 30, 2011 8:24 pm

The original, lost C-87 was flown out afterwards. If it doesn't describe that in "Fate is the Hunter" it does in his later book "Hostage to Fortune".

Dan

Airlift48 · **Joined:** Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 746

Gann says that that a crew was sent in to get the airplane out and that it "Followed" O'Connor to the Hump.

Tiger Tim · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 10:21 pm

Thanks, for some reason I had it in my head that a C-47 was flown in to pick everyone up.

-Tim

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