Skymaster Down – The Vanishing of the U.S. Air Force DC-54 | History Documentary
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In 1950, a U.S. Air Force transport plane—the Douglas C-54 Skymaster No. 2469—departed from Anchorage, Alaska, bound for Montana. With 44 people on board, the Skymaster vanished without a trace. To this day, neither the aircraft nor its passengers have ever been found. Skymaster Down is the story of an almost-forgotten mystery—one of Canada’s greatest unsolved cases—set against the backdrop of a spectacular yet perilous landscape and featuring a cast of fascinating, often heart-wrenching characters.
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In 1950, a U.S. Air Force transport plane – the Douglas C-54 Skymaster No. 2469 – departed from Anchorage, Alaska, bound for Montana. With 44 people on board, the Skymaster vanished without a trace. To this day, neither the aircraft nor its passengers have ever been found.
Skymaster Down is the story of an almost-forgotten mystery – one of Canada's greatest unsolved cases – set against the backdrop of a spectacular yet perilous landscape and featuring a cast of fascinating characters.
Snafu
There are mountains. Couldn't the plane have run into the side of one causing an avalanche covering it with deep snow?
What a sad tale. Hopefully the wreckage and remains will be found one day.
My Father was stationed in Alaska before I was born . My 3 older brothers grew up there for some time in late 50s and early 60s. They always talked about how striking the landscape was but very dangerous as well. People would go out hunting or hiking and never be seen again.
I’m glad documentaries like this exist but, this one is rough. No answers, not even any clues. Bummer. Hope it’s found one day.
Many thanks to our Canadian neighbors for continuing this search. 🗽🇨🇦
I hoped one day somebody would find a single piece of the aircraft.
Why haven't they used LIDAR to find this plane?
My father passed away when I was just four in 1959, my few memories of him are still in my memory, I've missed him all my life, I'm almost 70 now and I still miss him, it just never leaves me… RIP to the passengers and crew and the families they left behind, I hope to see him and now my late mother when my time comes….
Interesting doco.
I'm thinking that in a lake is a high probability. Incidentally I grew up in the Yukon in a small town (70s-80s), never heard of this!
I got on Google earth and found SNAG & Aishihik… but im no expert on goggle earth, seems someone could retrace flt path on here and MAYBE find the plane that the AF couldnt and later didnt. I cant get low enough altitude on google to see anything on my system
It’s either in a lake or has been ground up by a glacier, like the guy says. That’s my guess
16:51 his LAST words to her were, “If you have to jump…” ?!?! 🤔
why does the voiceover sound like Anthony Bourdain, all of his inflections are there with just different pitch…very very suspicious…
This is a sad situation. My heart goes out to all 44 families that was a terrible tragedy. No excuse for the government not going back the following spring to look for them, they probably would have found them. My best suggestion to finding them now would be to deploy lidar drones and scan the flight path. That would see them through the snow I bet.
Waste of an hour.
I agree with the Indian woman, they know how to track and read the terrain
Worm hole
I was with ( civil air patrol,,and sar
What’s left of the C-54 is certainly in the ice deposits or glaciers of the Wrangell-St. Elias mountains. Pilots would often save miles and time by flying south of the airway, closely following the mountains on their right and more directly heading toward Whitehorse.
Visually following the mountains works fine, as long as cloud and lighting conditions do not hide the mountains. Unmentioned in this doc is the similar plane four years earlier that ran right into one of the Wrangell mountain tops, which winter conditions had made invisible. Had this crash not been seen by a local it might have become a mystery.
Time for lydar
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