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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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SWNS reporter

A plane crashed into a mountain in 1952. Seventy years later, the search for victims goes on

John Pennell/US Army/SWNS

A painstaking search for plane crash survivors is continuing - 70 years after the accident.

On November 22, 1952, a U.S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster II flying from McChord Air Force Base, Washington, to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, crashed into 9,629-foot Mount Gannett. All 52 passengers and crewmembers aboard were killed.

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