On November 22, 1952, a C-124 Globemaster II carrying 52 service members crashed into Mount Gannett, Alaska, due to navigational error, incorrect weather forecasts, and precipitation static, with ...

McChord Field has been home to several military cargo aircraft — the C-47 Skytrain, the C-82 Packet, the C-124 Globemaster II and the C-141 Starlifter — going back to World War II. But none has been ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and contractors came together in June to search for additional remains from a crash that happened nearly 70 years earlier. On Nov. 22, 1952, a C-124 ...

Alaska-based military members who participated in a search for human remains and personal items from the 1952 crash of a C-124 Globemaster view some of the items that were found, Tuesday, Sept. 29, ...

The U.S. Air Force has announced the name of a service member who has been recovered from a C-124 Globemaster aircraft that was lost on Nov. 22, 1952. The remains of Air Force Staff Sgt. Eugene R.

Army Staff Sgt. Jorge Osorio guides in a UH-60 Black Hawk to transport evidence from a historic aircraft wreck site on Colony Glacier, Alaska. (DoD) The Air Force has announced the name of a service ...

Investigators say aircraft wreckage discovered this summer on a glacier in the mountains east of Anchorage came from an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing everyone on board. The C-124 ...

The U.S. Air Force on Friday announced it had identified the remains of two servicemen who died in the 1952 crash of a C-124 Globemaster cargo plane near Alaska's Colony Glacier. The remains of Capt.

Why did McDonnell Douglas design the C-17 Globemaster III with four engines instead of two or three? This question goes beyond a simple engineering choice; it touches on the aircraft’s mission profile ...