Switzerland Misfortune Plane Gauligletscher, 1946 (b/w photo)

On 19 November 1946, an American military aircraft, a Douglas C-53 Dakota (military version of the DC-3), crashed onto the Gauligletscher in the Bernese Oberland with twelve people on board. After locating the plane a few days later, a Swiss rescue team ascends to the crash site on 23 November. After an elaborate rescue operation, all accident victims can be rescued alive and flown into the valley on November 24 by the Swiss military pilots Victor Hug and Pista Hitz with aircraft of the type “Fieseler Storch”. The attempt to bring the passengers to the valley with rescue sleds is abandoned after the landing of the planes equipped with snow runners