Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) crash, Mar 22, 1952 (4 killed)

Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) accident on March 22, 1952 near Gaspé Quebec, Canada with 4 fatalities.

The Maritime Central Airways DC-3 left Saint John, New Brunswick, on a cargo flight to Goose Bay with one pilot and three passengers aboard. Its last radio report was near Chatham with an estimate over Seven Islands, and it then vanished from radar. Search operations were suspended days later and no trace of the aircraft or its occupants was found until the wreckage was spotted on 27 August 1953.

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