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January 25: Montana Gov. Donald Grant Nutter was en route to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank, Montana when the C-47 Skytrain he was a passenger in crashed. Winds exceeding 100 mph sheared off one of the wings of the plane, causing the aircraft to go down in Wolf Creek Canyon north of Helena.
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Channel Airways, crashed at St Boniface Down near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, UK. It was en route from Jersey in the Channel Isles to Portsmouth on the south coast of England. Thick fog and lack of navigational aids resulted in
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Airlines C-47 (9N-AAH) disappeared on a Kathmandu-Delhi flight with 10 on board; the wreckage was found eight days later on a mountain top near Tulachan Dhuri, Nepal at 11,200 feet; the aircraft had drifted north of the flight route in bad
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Corporation, an oil exploration company, back to San
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Montana Air National Guard: Maj. Clifford Hanson, Maj. Joseph Devine and Master Sgt. Charles Ballard.
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Airlines C-47 (VT-DFZ) stalled and crashed near Lonheshyphu Dropping Zone, Naga Hills, India during a turn in a valley, killing all nine on board. The aircraft was operating a food supply dropping flight out of
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96:DC-3 registered PP-YQN crashed at Nanuque, Brazil.
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