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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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A Korean airlift transport DC-4 with 38 occupants, including 29 Americans, went missing off the Alaska coast en route from Vancouver to Anchorage. Search efforts intensified with improving weather, but hope faded in the rugged terrain.
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JUNEAU, (AP)—Rescue planes fanned out over the rugged Alaska coastline today in an expanding search for a missing Korean airlift transport and its 38 occupants.
As the search for the Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4 widened with a gradual improvement in weather conditions, hope for the occupants diminished. Searchers said the area where the plane last reported was one of the wildest on the North American continent.
The transport, carrying among its passengers 29 Americans including two "high-rated" civilians, left Vancouver, B. C., late Friday for Anchorage, Alaska, on the first leg of a flight to Tokyo.
The pilot, Capt. Victor Fox, last reported off Cape Spencer, Alaska, at 12:17 a.m. PST, Saturday. Fox said the plane was on course at 9,000 feet, about 80 miles due west of Juneau, with a 51½ hour fuel supply.
Low flying planes searched waters off the Alaska Panhandle yesterday but poor visibility hampered their missions. Other planes scanned mountain peaks above the 8,000 foot level without success.
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Alaska
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Late Friday To Saturday 12:17 A.M. Pst
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38 occupants missing, search ongoing with diminishing hope, no success reported
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Korean airlift transport DC-4 operated by Canadian Pacific Airlines, carrying 29 Americans including two high-rated civilians, left Vancouver B.C. late Friday for Anchorage on way to Tokyo. Pilot Capt. Victor Fox last reported at 12:17 a.m. PST Saturday off Cape Spencer, Alaska, at 9,000 feet, 80 miles west of Juneau, with 51.5 hour fuel. Rescue planes searched rugged Alaska coastline, waters off Panhandle, and mountain peaks above 8,000 feet, hampered by poor visibility yesterday, improving today.