PASSENGERS ESCAPE
Plane's Forced Landing On Mountainside TWO OF CREW KILLED NZPA—Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. VANCOUVER, Dec. 24. Fourteen passengers and a stewardess were lucky to escape without injury or with superficial injuries when a Canadian airliner made a forced landing on Mount Okanagan, about 200 miles from Vancouver, on Friday night The pilot was killed in the landing and the co-pilot died on the mountainside from critical injuries. The airliner, which was a DC3. was reported missing on Friday night when it did not arrive at Penticon, about 20 miles from the scene of the crash. , It was sighted on Saturday by a Royal Canadian Air Force plane 1000 feet from the peak of the 5500-foot snowcovered mountain. People were seen moving around the plane and fires were burning nearby, Paratroopers jumped to the scene on Saturday, and a ground rescue party climbed the mountain. The rescuers have begun bringing down the passengers, but the bodies of the pilot and co-pilot were still on the mountain today. Plans to remove them by helicopter were suspended because of bad visibility. The passengers who, until the crash, thought they were making abnormal: landing, saia the pilot’s skill in making the .forced landing on the mountainsaved their lives.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27581, 26 December 1950, Page 5
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