Douglas C-54 Skymaster crash, Mar 12, 1948 (30 killed), M...
Douglas C-54 Skymaster accident on March 12, 1948 near Mt Sanford Alaska, United States with 30 fatalities. Cause: Controlled flight into terrain after...
- Date: March 12, 1948
- Aircraft: Douglas C-54 Skymaster
- Location: Mt Sanford Alaska, United States
- Fatalities: 30
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Controlled flight into terrain after the crew flew off the published airway at night.
Northwest Airlines Flight 4422, a Douglas C 54G chartered to carry merchant mariners from Shanghai to New York via Anchorage, struck Mount Sanford in Alaska on the night of 12 March 1948. All six crew and 24 passengers died.