GLOBEMASTER MISSING
Feared Crashed Off Alaska
(Rec. 10 p.m.) ANCHORAGE (Alaska), Jan. 12. A big United States Air Force Globemaster cargo plane developed engine trouble over the Gulf of Alaska yesterday and was presumed to have gone down about 105 miles south of Anchorage.
A spokesman at Elmendorf Air Force base said the military air transport plane was believed to have nine men aboard. But its home base, Travis Air Force base, in California, reported it had 10 men aboard.
The Elmendorf spokesman said the plane was listed officially as overdue when it failed to arrive at Kodiak at 5 p.m. It was op its way from McChord Air Force base in Washington State. A Civil Aeronautics station about 125 miles south of Anchorage reported that it lost radio contact with the Globemaster shortly before it was due at Kodiak—after it had reported that two of its four engines had failed. The Douglas-built Globemaster is one of the largest conventionally powered aircraft in military service. It has a wingspan of 174 ft and a range of more than 4000 miles.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 9
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