AIR PASSENGERS WERE LUCKY

Wanganui Chronicle, 26 December 1950, Page 5

AIR PASSENGERS WERE LUCKY

Plane's Forced Landing On Snow Covered Mountain, Pilots Killed VANCOUVER. December 24 (Reed. 6 p.m,).—-Fourteen aeroplane 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 landing r and the co-pilot died on the j Paratroopers jumped to the scene mountainside from critical in-lon Saturday and a ground rescue mpjps ! party climbed the mount •'•n. The rescuers have been brinyi down the The airliner, which was a DC3, was passengers, but the bod’er of th? pilot reported missing on Friday night, and the co-nilot were slill on the when il did not arrive at Penticon 'mountain today. Plans to remove about 20 miles from the scene of the I them by helicopter were suspended becrash. It was sighted on Saturday by cam’e of bad visibility. a Royal Canadian Air Force plane I The passengers, who until the crash 1000 feet from the peak of a 5500-fo°t thought the’.* were making a normal snow covered mountain. People were I landing, said the pilot’s skill in maleseen moving around lhe plane and in 7 the forced landing on the maunfires were burning nearby. I tain saved their lives.