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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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An American C-54 Skymaster transport plane en route from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Great Falls, Mont., encountered dense smoke from forest fires in Northern Alberta and British Columbia, causing five coffins to loosen and injure 25 aboard, including passengers and crew. The plane landed in Fort St. John, B.C., for medical aid.
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FORT ST. JOHN, B.C., Sept. 27—(®)—Five coffins injured 25 persons aboard an American transport plane trying to fly through dense smoke clouds rising from the Northern Alberta and British Columbia forest fires.
A C-54 Skymaster enroute from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Great Falls, Mont., was forced to land here yesterday after taking a buffeting from the rolling smoke clouds to get medical aid for the injured.
The plane carried, in addition to its passengers and crew, five coffins containing the bodies of United States airmen killed in an Alaskan crash.
So rough was the flight that the moorings holding the coffins loosened.
The caskets bounced around, injuring most of those aboard.
It took two doctors here two hours to stitch up wounds in heads, faces and shoulders.
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Fort St. John, B.C.
Event Date
Sept. 27
Outcome
25 persons injured
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A C-54 Skymaster transport plane en route from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Great Falls, Mont., flew through dense smoke clouds from Northern Alberta and British Columbia forest fires, causing the moorings of five coffins containing bodies of United States airmen to loosen. The coffins bounced around, injuring 25 persons aboard. The plane was forced to land in Fort St. John, B.C., yesterday for medical aid, where two doctors treated wounds for two hours.