Doomed 1948 flight topic of talk
 

Two commercial jet pilots who have sunk more than 10 years and a small fortune into solving the mystery of a fatal plane crash on Mount Sanford 54 years ago will give a talk today about their findings.

Kevin McGregor of Colorado and Marc Millican of Anchorage will show video clips and more than 100 slides about their confirmation, in 1999, of the wreckage of Northwest Airlines Flight 4422.

Their presentation is part of the free Alaska Airmen's Association weekend-long aviation trade show. McGregor and Millican will speak at 2:30 p.m. in the FedEx hangar off Postmark Drive.

Flight 4422, a chartered DC-4 carrying 24 merchant mariners and a crew of six from Anchorage to New York, crashed straight on into a cliff on 16,237-foot Sanford on March 12, 1948.

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1117877p-1225262c.html

Here's an Update on this story
 

Very fascinating, would make a great book.

9 Years Later, a Fatal Mystery Solved
Experts Trace Body Part From 1948 Plane Crash to Roanoke Seaman

By Michael E. Ruane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 16, 2008; Page B01

On a July day nine years ago, amid a bleak, rocky landscape near the foot of an ancient volcano in southeastern Alaska, two amateur plane crash detectives found Frank Van Zandt's left arm.

They didn't know that the pale remains, which resembled a delicate glove, belonged to the long-dead merchant seaman from Roanoke.

All they knew was that they were at the site of a plane crash almost 50 years before whose wreckage had been held in the grip of a glacier since 1948. They already had found scattered airplane debris, but nothing like this. ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081503300.html