39528. Your link has been automatically embedded. Owned by New Tribes Mission, a religious organization, the plane was on the first leg of a flight to. I asked for reliable sources, not more gossip. However south of Portland, the wind changed direction, blowing from the west at 70 m.p.h. "(S)treet cars will head for their respective barns, jitneys will stop operating, barber shops and the majority of restaurants will close, and activities generally in the city, so far as organized labor is concerned, will be curtailed.". Lister died months later in office. Todd E. Crumbaker, age 35, of Billerica MA, and John Wald age 35, of Cambridge, MA died March 24, 1996 in an avalanche while skiing in the Gulf of Slides. Before leaving, the families decided to hold a memorial on Round Pass in August every year to honor the dead Marines. You can post now and register later. Soon after the crash, the crew sent out a weak message, initiating a search. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran its commemorative 100th anniversary edition a little early - in April 1963. The area were the jet was presumed to have crashed has long since been logged out and populated. 69, 70 and 71. Unknown type Civilian Military Exact coordinates Nearest city. It's believed the. Pasted as rich text. In addition to the 11 men found in the crushed nose section, 14 more bodies, most encased in ice, and a considerable amount of the broken plane, were discovered wedged in a crevasse. In the Sept. 3, 1939 edition, the front page shows Britain declaring That's the new allegation as it relates to Snyder, with Goodell supposedly having signed off on a $50 million loan for Snyder in 2018 that was disputed by Washington's minority owners. Fresh off being named "Man of the Year" by TIME, he underwent a 9-day goodwill tour of the United States which concluded in Seattle, according to HistoryLink.org. On Jan. 10, 2009, the P-I announced being put up for sale by Hearst. But over 70 years ago, during World War II, tragedy struck in Billings when a plane fell from the sky in early December. On Monday, August 25, 1947, 13 climbers, led again by Butler, returned to South Tahoma Glacier to assess the feasibility of removing the bodies for burial without undue hazard. Plane crash in SW Washington 1/6 Public Affairs Specialist Ian Gregor said the FAA had issued an alert to pilots, airports and public safety agencies after the pilot's family reported the flight was overdue. See details: See map: N781SC. Washington. Butler was honored again by the National Parks Service during a meeting at Grand Canyon, Arizona. Still, the lost Marines would not be forgotten. On May 14, 1943 a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura, Bureau Number (BuNo) 33142, which operated out of NAS Seattle, crashed into Mount Rose, in the Olympic National Forest in Washington State, roughly 40 miles west of Seattle. Examination of the wreckage revealed an old SAR data plate placed at discovered crash sites by the State that verified the wreckage was of another F-102A that had been previously recovered. In other news that day, Dr. Henry Suzzallo - the namesake for that library at UW - arrived in Olympia to assist an ailing Gov. The Curtis Commando (C-46/R5C) was the largest and heaviest twin-engine transport aircraft used by the U.S. military during World War II (1941-1945). The 32 U.S. Marines remain entombed forever on Mount Rainier. The aircraft, flying entirely by instruments at an altitude of 9,000 feet, encounter heavy weather over southwestern Washington. Daily News Updates After careful consideration, all the experts agreed to abandon the mission because it would endanger the lives of the recovery parties. All were lifted out by helicopter. The Weekly Intelligencer debuted Aug. 5, 1867 as a later iteration of The Lowes were killed Sunday afternoon when their small plane crashed and exploded near Grand Glaize Airport in central Missouri. View a list of all crashes in Washington. The Linn County Sheriffs Office was assisted by the Deschutes County Dispatch Center, Life Flight, the US Coast Guard, Federal Aviation Administration, and National Transportation Safety Board with this investigation. Feb. 3, 1979: Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping (or Teng Hsiao-ping) arrives in Seattle for a two-day visit. Lister and act as a special adviser. Recovery crews were certain the remaining eight were among the wreckage as well. Ten people, including a child, were on board the plane when it went down shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, the US Coast Guard's Pacific Northwest district said in a news release. I have been on and around the mountain several times and seen many pictures of different aspects and have never actually seen any evidence, possibly due to snow cover. The one-year anniversary paper of The Great Fire detailed the city's rehabilitation, calling Seattle "Daughter of Phoenix. The P-I featured Seattle Center's International Fountain above the fold the day after the World's Fair debut, April 22, 1962. Photo by Jim Salge. We invite you to find more tidbits about the Northeasts highest summit here. Clear editor. On September 2, 1945, the last day of the war, a USMC Grumman F6F-5 crashed in Death Valley. The next day's newspaper pegged the epicenter of the quake near Hood Canal's Dabob Bay near the Olympic Peninsula town of Quilcene. The following summer, Navy officials concluded the plane crashed into the side of Mount Rainier at a speed of 180 mph. Something to consider. The P-I was consumed with strike coverage throughout its duration. Skiing, sports and Mt. The area that we were in (Red) looked completely different than those photos. And even though the better part of a century has passed since that fateful . On Wednesday, August 27, 1947, Captain A. O. While on the way down, he got lost, eventually meeting his fate in the bed of the Ammonoosuc River in the Ammonoosuc Ravine. This wind shift, unknown to the pilot, pushed the plane approximately 25 degrees to the east, directly on a path into Mount Rainier. II. On June 26, the first 14,000 U.S. troops landed in France to begin combat training. The rangers investigated and found the crushed nose section of the Curtis R5C, which had been buried under several feet of snow since winter. The Lowes were in the southern state to celebrate a . Before making any decisions, Navy officials advised they would seek expert advice from the Armys famous Mountain Division about recovery efforts. 55.- 62. Ernest Lister of the Armistice. In his presentation address, Colonel D. A. Stafford, USMC, told the audience that Butler had declined the $5,000 reward offered by the parents for locating the missing plane, explaining that he had only been discharging his duties as a park ranger. Lucas. Richard Seven, Jack Broom. Great pic by the way PChaus. The missing aircraft was a 1996 Piper Cherokee single-engine plane from Llano, California (a town in Los Angeles County). The P-I warned readers of the Seattle General Strike the day before it started on Feb. 5, 1919.It grew out of an organized shipyard strike that occurred in January and included 35,000 union shipyard workers. The search for Lucas was in the Skokomish valley (due to faint SAR beacon beeping) but the flight path was north of there over the Hoh, where it vanished from radar. It became. Aug. 9, 1974: The P-I splashes President Richard Nixon's resignation across the front page, reporting that he would step down at 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. The aircraft disappeared in a snow storm while n-route, and a search and rescue operation was begun. Cooper: Wanted criminal and Northwest legend. Instead, the National Park Service affixed a bronze plaque, bearing the names of the Marines, on a large granite boulder at Round Pass, overlooking South Tahoma Glacier. She said Wirts flight plan did not include travel to Sisters, but that he fueled his plane there Thursday afternoon. In the middle of a January night in 1982, Joe Lentinis phone rang two people were lost on Mount Washington in dangerous winter conditions. Generally considered a moderately challenging route, it takes an average of 2 h 5 min to complete. "By next spring, this snow will be compressed into several feet of glacier ice and there should be no visible evidence of this tragedy left" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). I read a brief note elsewhere that suggested there was some wreckage on the west side of Mt. Considering the first KC-135 crash still echoed in the memories of the search and rescue forces, the Mount Spokane Ski Patrol and the Washington State Patrol made concerted efforts to search for the second plane in the same vicinity as the first plane. Word spread, and the house began attracting tourists, and soon artists and writers were drawn as well, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Ambitious Guest, a short story about the tragedy. As a pioneer in prosthetics, he creates limbs for amputees, helping them participate in sports like mountain climbing. With forty-four fatalities, this crash remains Spokane County's worst aviation incident and was the worst accident for a Boeing C-135 at the time. The following day, Butler flew over the area in a Navy reconnaissance plane to assist photographing the area where he saw the debris. The rangers returned to park headquarters at Longmire and notified officials at Naval Air Station Sand Point of their discovery. The wreckage was finally spotted on December 2, on Boott Spur, at the 5,500 foot level of Mt. He arrived over Cedar City, but could not land because of a snowstorm. Over the next few days, Navy and National Park Service officials discussed the feasibility of the removing bodies from the glacier for burial. Despite his severe injuries, the pilot William Carey survived. The Nov. 5, 2008 edition reported Barack Obama's election as the United States' first black president. No matter the reason for their abandonment, many of these hidden wrecks can be visited by anyone with a will to traverse a little wild terrain. The $41 million six-lane project linked Northeast 145th Street to the freeway, stretching north to Everett. MARION FORKS, Ore. (KTVZ) A pilot killed in the crash of his small plane last Thursday east of Marion Lake, between Mount Jefferson and Three Fingered Jack, has been identified by a family member as Chehalis, Washington resident Wayne Wirt. 39528, The State of WashingtonWashington State Department of Archeology and Historic Preservation. "Check out archive photos illustrating the fire's devastation. At 4:13 p.m., Major Robert V. Reilly, pilot of aircraft No. Nevertheless, that is where Sam Willey decided to settle his family, at the base of what is now called Mount Willey. Footage shows the final moments from inside a doomed passenger plane that crashed into a mountain in New Zealand, killing all 257 on board. Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper resigned Dec. 7, 1999, days after riots disrupted the WTO summit and exposed abuses in the police response to demonstrators. Frantic efforts by the CAA, as well as the Army and Navy, to contact the plane were fruitless. A dispatch from the Navy Department, Washington, D.C., concurred with the decision and approved mass burial at the site. Finally, at 9 a.m. on Thursday, July 24, 1947, the search party started the arduous three-and-a-half mile climb toward South Tahoma Glacier. Air Force B-52 Crashes Just Before Landing in Washington | Loose Cannon (With Real Video) TheFlightChannel 1.43M subscribers Join Subscribe Save 1.9M views 1 year ago Find out why a Boeing B-52. In July 1947, a ranger at Mount Rainier National Park spots wreckage on South Tahoma Glacier. On September 15, 1947, the Department of Washington Marine Corps League asked Secretary of the Interior Julius Albert Krug (1907-1970) to rename South Tahoma Glacier the United States Marines Memorial Glacier, stressing that "No finer memorial to our Marine dead could be found or erected" (New York Times). Your previous content has been restored. Despite warnings of bad weather, in late afternoon they left the Halfway House and the protection of trees. On 14 May 1965, loggers found a parachute and harness in a tall pine tree north of Shelton. But their efforts were in vain. A faint beeper was heard in the search area during the first three days of the search but the source could not be pinpointed. The Feb. 4 edition of the P-I hailed the latest achievement in the I-5 construction that persisted through 1969. That afternoon, the first fragments of an aircraft were found at the 9,500-foot level, strewn over a quarter-mile-wide area and partially embedded in the ice. Volunteers Albert Dow and Michael Harrich were searching Odells Gully where they found tracks that might have belonged to the missing climbers. However, it could not be proven that the harness belonged to the missing pilot, a captain with 11 years service. Other than the parachute harness, no trace of the jet was found in that area. Details. It was then an avalanche swept through, killing Dow. The P-I warned readers of the general strike the day before it started on Feb. 5, 1919. The tragic death of the Willey family in a mudslide turned the countrys attention to the White Mountains, helping to set the stage for the area and Mount Washington to become tourist attractions. Weather's existence remained a secret to all but top federal officials until TWA Flight 514 crashed in close proximity to the site in December 1974. On June 20, 1944, a C-54-A cargo plane (TWA flight 277) crashed into Fort Mountain. AIRPLANE CRASHES. Most search activity was limited to investigating leads provided by local citizens who reported hearing airplane engines around the time the Curtis R5C disappeared. I believe the photos were taken somewhere in the area of the yellow X. I have followed the debris trail all the way up to the precise point of impact. Look only as far as the forthcoming tear-down of the Alaskan Way Viaduct to see its continued reverberations. But extracting a 10,000-pound boulder from a wilderness area wasnt feasible and it would require an act of Congress to allow its removal from a national park. The pilot was found dead at the scene. That came from this website (there are others I believe): Thanks John, yep that's the one. Did you ever think of Washington as a "parallelogram?" No injuries were reported Sunday after a small single-engine plane clipped a power line and crashed into a stand of trees near Round Mountain Loop in the Marion area west of Kalispell. The flight encountered extremely bad weather over southwestern Washington and four of the planes turned back, landing at the Portland Airport. The sheriff said Linn County Search and Rescue teams hiked into the area and set up camp near the crash location. It's pretty rare, thankfully, to hear about a plane crash in Montana. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed to NewsChannel 21 that only the pilot was aboard when the single-engine Piper PA-28 crashed near Mount Jefferson Thursday afternoon. The wreckage remains after all these years. A wing from a Cessna 208B broke away before the plane crashed Friday into a field northeast of Seattle, killing the four people on board, the National Transportation Safety Board said on. According . The four rodeo performers killed in Monday's plane crash on Mount Rainier were chasing the riches of ``Cowboy Christmas,'' a 10-day stretch in which a competitor may hit a dozen shows and make 20 percent of his annual earnings. The Weekly Post-Intelligencer in 1890 reported on Washington state's most recent census, which pegged Seattle's population at 43,914 - an increase of 40,381. When Major Reilly failed to contact Toledo, establishing his new altitude, air traffic controllers became concerned. Paul Flanigan, age 26, of Melrose, MA, died February 14, 1979 from injuries sustained in a fall in Huntington Ravine. Post-Intelligener. Although buffeted by the storm, the fifth Curtis R5C flew through the weather without major difficulty, landing at Sand Point shortly after 5 p.m. After two unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine, pilot Captain Joseph W. Wildt decided to ditch the F102 and headed it north towards Lake Washington. 1945 plane crash site - Bald Hill History: public and the press for a decade to come.". 63, 64 and 65. CFL history has been coming to life in TSN's Engraved On A Nation documentary series (full videos of the films and behind-the-scenes information available here), and the latest entry, "The Crash," did an excellent job of exploring the 1956 Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810 crash that killed 62 people, including five Canadian football stars. Updated: 4:18 PM PDT July 5, 2021. April 30, 1965: A 6.5 Richter Scale earthquake rocked the Northwest, causing millions of dollars in damage April 29. Copyright 2022 CascadeClimbers.com By In 2018, 36 years later, the Mount Washington Observatorys summit Weather Museum rededicated the Extreme Weather Exhibit in Dows memory. The airplane crashed Thursday afternoon about nine miles (14 kilometers) southwest of the Missoula airport, shortly after takeoff, Jennifer Gabris, spokesperson for the National Transportation. Washington. The sixth, however, vanished, with its last communication transmitted at 4:13 p.m. Thirty-two Marines were on board the missing plane: a major pilot, a lieutenant colonel pilot, a master sergeant, a sergeant military policeman and 28 Marine Corps privates. Excavation in December 1944 of crash site of C-47 Skytrain at Denali National Park courtesy of Kirk Dietz Denali National Park More can be found in the avalanche meadow below. United States of America. Many of the rangers thought the aircraft might have crashed into the Nisqually Glacier on the south slope of the mountain. Plane crashes in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. This traffic at the Northeast 145th Street ramp shows a familiar sight today. Eric Lattey, age 28, of River Vale NJ, and Monroe Couper age 40, of Orange, NJ died February 26, 1994, of hypothermia during an emergency bivouac atop Pinnacle Gully in Huntington Ravine. "In his last radio message, the pilot of the missing plane told the Toledo range station he was flying at 9,000 feet and proceeding normally," the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on Dec. 11, 1946, the day after the plane disappeared. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate, with the NTSB in charge of the investigation, he said. Editors note: This roundup of facts is part of the June 2019 feature story on Mount Washington that was featured in New Hampshire Magazine. The P-I joined the rest of the world on Sept. 12, 2001 in attempting to make sense of the terrorist attacks in New York City, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. the day before. Washington's ravines, Wild weather and the Mt. In the Sept. 3, 1939 edition, the front page shows Britain declaring war against Germany after its invasion of Poland, setting off World War II. Search and Rescue was able to locate the plane, a single-engine Cirrus SR22. The sun had melted the snow down to the glacial ice, revealing the nose section with the bodies of 11 men tangled inside. I know this is an old string, but was looking up some information regarding my grandfather's plane crash and ran across this thread. Other than family members, there is no "official" active search going for this missing jet. Twenty-five Army, Navy, and Coast Guard aircraft were launched to search the slopes of Mount Rainier and as far south as Toledo in Lewis County for any sign of the missing Curtis R5C transport. "Mother-in-law jokes and other forms of American humor do not translate well into Chinese, and polite Seattle hosts may wish to avoid them during the Ten Hsiao-ping visit," the P-I reported. On June 26, the first 14,000 U.S. troops landed in France to begin combat training. The crash is the single greatest tragedy in Mount Rainier's history -- a mountain that has been the site of more than 325 deaths since it was established as a national park in 1899. June 6, 1917: The P-I reports on the local response to the escalating World War I. KTVZ NewsChannel 21 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation. Throughout the day, the climbers, battling rain and snow, were bombarded by falling rocks and encountered two large crevasses that had opened overnight. [location] Pilot, Maurice Francis Graham, took off from Las Vegas carrying US mail. The plane was estimated to be approximately 30 miles south of Toledo, the midpoint between Seattle and Portland. Primarily, we keep this list as a respectful memorial to those who lost their lives in the Presidential Range, says Patrick Hummel, manager of Mount Washington State Park. Although the plane had a service ceiling of 24,500 feet, it was restricted to flying at lower altitudes when hauling passengers because the cabin was unpressurized. In 1963, the P-I printed commemorative issues from the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush, during which gold-seekers funneled through Seattle to Alaska to strike it rich. There's A Hike In Washington That Leads You Straight To An Abandoned Plane Crash The Olympic National Forest's Buckhorn Wilderness is located in the northeast portion of the park. The Nov. 11, 1918 P-I reported the Armistice. On May 14, 1943 a Lockheed PV-1 Ventura, Bureau Number (BuNo) 33142, which operated out of NAS Seattle, crashed into Mount Rose, in the Olympic National Forest in Washington State, roughly 40 miles west of Seattle. ", Other choice terms: "hair-brained radicals," "crackbrains" and "Rubbish!". The last night of November 1944 was dark and wet on Mount Tamalpais. All 7 passengers on board died which included 6 civilian crew members and 1 United States Air Force passenger. A float plane carrying 10 people including three of Megan Hilty's family members crashed in Washington's Puget Sound earlier this month By Shafiq Najib Published on September 13, 2022 10:00 PM This is the greatest day the world has ever seen.". They believed the wreckage, if it could be located, would be scattered on one of the glaciers on the south or southwest side of the mountain. Included in the survey party were nine experts in mountain and winter warfare from the Armys Mountain Division. The cause of most of these deaths can be summarized by the six words also tacked to the wall in a much larger font: The Worst Weather in the World.. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a New Year's Day edition advertising the natural and agricultural features of its new state, less than two months after Washington became a state in November 1889. Washington, New Hampshire - March 21, 1971 On March 21, 1971, a husband and wife were killed when their small private aircraft crashed near the summit of Mt. Washington at 5000' elevation or so. A light plane that vanished in southwest Washington crashed and disintegrated on impact in remote, rugged terrain, killing all three people aboard, authorities said Tuesday.. A ground team that . John La Porta, Brian . Irene Hennessey, age 47, and her husband, Thomas Hennessey, age 54, died March 21, 1971 in a light plane crash above Huntington Ravine. See map. Found aluminum scraps here 16 years ago in the area in red. Nice pic Pchaus. I never did ask the Forest Service or the Park about it though. On Friday, July 25, 1947, the mountaineers returned to South Tahoma Glacier to search for signs of the 32 missing men, but the weather had deteriorated, greatly increasing the hazards on the glacier. There was no indication of any problems during communications with the pilot. Park rangers thought that recent heavy snows on Mount Rainier would have covered any signs of wreckage. The article says Washington jumped in population from 75,116 as Washington Territory in 1880 to approximately 346,000 as Washington state in 1890. spokesman said 85 passengers and a crew. The recovery team was searching for remains from a C-124 Globemaster II that crashed into Gannett Mountain, Alaska, on Nov. 22, 1952, while flying from McChord Air Force Base, Washington, to . Initial efforts to free pieces of the wreckage with ice axes proved unsuccessful. The following may or may not be reliable, but it is referenced. Kent Woodward and seven other people were killed September 17, 1967 due to causes indirectly associated with Mount Washington. Although circumstances had changed dramatically, the decision was made to proceed with the service. In announcing that he would stay on for two months after his resignation notice, he actually stayed two months longer than he'd originally planned, aiming to retire the next month. An unscientific breakdown of the list, which includes several vague causes of death indirectly associated with Mount Washington, reveals the following reasons as the most common: Inevitably, some of the deaths in the park were avoidable. if anyone knows of the location of plane wreckage on west/north side of Washington, let me know. Entertainment Daily Weather Forecast If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it here. Stories of the front page included a poem about friendship in old age, Civil War news and a harrowing story from Naples, Italy, in which a mason was kidnapped to carve a hole out of a wall, where a young woman was forced into a coffin that was then inserted into the hole and walled off by the mason. On the shoulder of Bald Hill, just northeast of Mount Beacon, at an elevation of about 1,100 feet, there are the remains of a Navy transport plane that crashed on Nov. 11, 1945. Hearst indeed turned the P-I into the United States' first daily newspaper to become an online-only newsroom. Its lead: "In the most deadly terrorist onslaught ever waged in the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center yesterday, toppling its twin 110-story towers. not to be confused with the F-102s that provided wreckage over by the Burke range. Colonel Alben C. Robertson, Santa Ana Heights, California, Copilot, Master Sergeant Wallace J. Slonina, Rochester, New York, Crew Chief, Master Sergeant Charles F. Criswell, San Diego, California, Private Duane R. Abbott, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Private Robert A. Anderson, Raymondville, Texas, Private Leslie R. Simmons, Jr., Kalama, Washington, Private Harry K. Skinner, Confluence, Pennsylvania, Private Lawrence E. Smith, Lincoln, Nebraska, Private Buddy E. Snelling, Columbus, Ohio, Private Bobby J. Stafford, Texarkana, Texas, Private William D. St. Clair, Los Angeles, California, Private John C. Stone, Los Angeles, California, Private Albert H. Stubblefield, Bakersfield, California, Private William R. Sullivan, Ardmore, Oklahoma, Private Chester E. Taube, Fresno, California, Private Harry L. Thompson, Jr., Kansas City, Kansas, Private Duane S. Thornton, Biola, California, Private Eldon D. Todd, Fort Collins, Colorado, Private Richard P. Trego, Denver, Colorado, Private Charles W. Truby, Anthony, Kansas, Private Ernesto R. Valdovin, Tucson, Arizona, Private Gene L. Vremsak, Calexico, California, Private William E. Wadden, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Private Donald J. Walker, Hoquiam, Washington, Private Gilbert E. Watkins, Tuscon, Arizona, Private Louis A. Whitten, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. At 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 24, 1947, a memorial service for the 32 Marines was held near Longmire. Despite winter-like conditions, the 29-year-old Englishman did reach the summit, but was less lucky on the return trip. Added: 22 Jun 2021. The ceremony concluded with a bugler playing taps and the traditional 21-gun salute. The report was followed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center (AFRCC) contacting dispatch and saying they had an airplane radar that disappeared over the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area. The P-I celebrated the opening of the World's Fair April 21, 1962. The airplane crashed Thursday . The aircraft experienced severe weather including heavy rain, high wind and lightning. Thirty-two Marines died when their transport plane crashed into Mount Rainier in December 1946 and the men remain on the mountain face, forever entombed by decades of snow and ice. On August 18, 1948, the first annual gathering of the families of the Marines interred on South Tahoma Glacier was held at Round Pass. Just before midnight, a Navy patrol bomber careened through the rain and smashed into the southern face of the mountain,. So to follow your example, next time I'll post an internet link that may or may not be reliable, or however you put it. MISSOULA A couple from Washington state have died in the crash of a single-engine airplane in western Montana, officials said. Life Flight flew the area but was not able to identify a crash site due to weather conditions. The P-I ran this aerial shot of the World's Fair campus, looking to the northwest, April 22, 1962. The library also has copies of the NTSB published reports for 1967 to the 1990's. The National Transportation Safety Board, Public Inquiries Branch, 490 LeEnfant Plaza, SW, Washington, DC 20594, telephone 202-314-6551 or 800-877-6799, has custody of NTSB and CAB aircraft accident reports since 1965. Because it was believed that vibrations from aircraft motors could trigger avalanches and rock slides, endangering the climbers, all planes were warned to stay clear of Mount Rainier. But poor visibility and bad weather throughout southwestern Washington kept the search planes grounded. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, today's was the first fatal crash by an airliner approaching Dulles, which opened in 1962. On 28 November 1979, a sightseeing aircraft carrying 257 people crashed head-on into the side of a volcano in Antarctica. 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