Status:
Date:	Saturday 29 July 1950
Type:	Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4)
Operator:	United States Air Force – USAF
Registration:	42-72700
C/n / msn:	10805
First flight:	1945
Crew:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Passengers:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Total:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6
Aircraft damage:	Damaged beyond repair
Location:	156 km (97.5 mls) W of Juneau, AK (   United States of America)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Tacoma-McChord AFB, WA (TCM/KTCM), United States of America
Destination airport:	Anchorage-Elmendorf AFB, AK (EDF/PAED), United States of America

Narrative:
The C-54 transport plane was operating on a routine cargo flight when it impacted 1000 feet below the summit of 10,740-foot Mount La Perouse.

Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) – Mountain

» Star-News – Aug 7, 1950
» Aviation Archaeological Investigation and Research (AAIR)

source:  http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19500729-1

Airman Abandon Alaskan Rescue

Six Fliers Aboard Big Transport In Crash Believed Killed

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 6 Efforts to reach the wreckage of a C-54 transport high on a southeastern Alaska peak were abandoned today. The six men aboard the crashed plane were listed by the Air Force as presumed dead.

To read more: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XGpgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6XENAAAAIBAJ&pg=1487%2C1668990

Crash of a Douglas C-54D-10-DC Skymaster on the Mt La Pérouse: 6 killed

Date & Time: Jul 29, 1950

Type of aircraft:Douglas C-54 Skymaster (29601)”>

Douglas C-54 Skymaster

Operator: United States Air Force – USAF (since 1947) (31252)”> 

Registration:

42-72700

Flight Phase:

Flight

Flight Type:

Cargo

Survivors:

No

Site:

Mountains

Schedule:

McChord – Elmendorf

MSN:

10805

YOM:

1945

Location: Mt La Pérouse (23453)”>

Mt La Pérouse

Alaska (13556)”>

Alaska

Country: United States of America (13436)”>

United States of America

Region:

North America

Crew on board:

5

Crew fatalities:

Pax on board:

1

Pax fatalities:

Other fatalities:

Total fatalities:

6

Circumstances:

While in cruising altitude about 98 miles northwest of Juneau, the four-engine aircraft hit the slope of Mt La Pérouse (10,740 feet high). The wreckage was found about 1,000 feet below the summit and all six occupants were killed.

Causes:

Controlled flight into terrain.

Source: https://www.baaa-acro.com/country/united-states-america?page=1038

Missing Airmen 

P. Eugent T. Sewall: Basic at Greenville, MS. He graduated at Blytheville AAFd with the Class of 43B, S/N: O-797617. He was a B-17 pilot with the 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Sqdn flying missions out of England.

CPTFrom ME