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On June 3, a group of family members gathered at military cemetery in Washington state to remember 101 people who died when their chartered DC 7 crashed into Dixon Entrance
It was 59 years ago this week when an airliner took off from what’s now JBLM and headed north for Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska.
Airliner left Tacoma and ditched in the ocean in October 1962 April 14, 2021 at 10:30 am Northwest Airlines DC-7C N285, which landed on the water off the coast of Alaska on October 22, 1962; everyone aboard survived, but the plane sank. Photo is believed to have been taken at Minneapolis-St. Paul airport in 1959. (Northwest Airlines History Center Museum) Within a period of less than a year, two identical airliners took off from McChord Air Force Base near Tacoma – now JBLM – headed for Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. Both were military charters operated by Northwe...