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4422</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_(4589813049).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg/220px-Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg/330px-Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg/440px-Douglas_DC-4_Northwest_Airlines_%284589813049%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="358" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.3em;">A Douglas C-54 similar to the accident aircraft</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #082567; color: white">Accident</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Date</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">March 12, 1948</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Summary</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Controlled_flight_into_terrain" title="Controlled flight into terrain">Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT)</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Site</th><td class="infobox-data flabel location" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Mount_Sanford_(Alaska)" title="Mount Sanford (Alaska)">Mount Sanford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Territory">Alaska Territory</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #082567; color: white">Aircraft</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Aircraft type</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Douglas_C-54_Skymaster" title="Douglas C-54 Skymaster">Douglas C-54G-1-DO</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Airlines" title="Northwest Airlines">Northwest Airlines</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Aircraft_registration" title="Aircraft registration">Registration</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">NC95422 <span style="font-size:85%;">(formerly 45-513)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Flight origin</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Longhua_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Longhua Airport">Lunghwa Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shanghai" title="Shanghai">Shanghai</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Stopover</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Anchorage" class="mw-redirect" title="Anchorage">Anchorage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Destination</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">LaGuardia Airport</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Occupants</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">30</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Passengers</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">24</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Crew</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Fatalities</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">30</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em; white-space:nowrap;">Survivors</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">0</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On March 12, 1948, <b>Northwest Airlines Flight 4422</b> (NC95422) crashed into <a href="/wiki/Mount_Sanford_(Alaska)" title="Mount Sanford (Alaska)">Mount Sanford</a>, Alaska, with a crew of six and 24 passengers.<sup id="cite_ref-asn_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The flight was a <a href="/wiki/C-54" class="mw-redirect" title="C-54">C-54</a> charter flying back to the United States from <a href="/wiki/Shanghai,_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Shanghai, China">Shanghai</a>. The aircraft refueled at <a href="/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage</a> (<a href="/wiki/Merrill_Field" title="Merrill Field">Merrill Field</a>) and took off at 8:12 P.M. to continue on to its destination, <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> (<a href="/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport" title="LaGuardia Airport">LaGuardia Airport</a>). Instead of following the published <a href="/wiki/Airway_(aviation)" title="Airway (aviation)">airway</a>, which detoured around Mount Sanford, the aircraft flew a direct line, crashing into the mountain.<sup id="cite_ref-cab_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cab-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the initial impact the wreckage slid down for about 3000 feet before coming to rest.<sup id="cite_ref-asn_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-asn-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were no survivors. The passengers were American <a href="/wiki/Merchant_mariner" class="mw-redirect" title="Merchant mariner">merchant mariners</a>, crew members of the <a href="/wiki/Tanker_(ship)" title="Tanker (ship)">tanker</a> SS <i>Sunset</i>, being ferried back home.<sup id="cite_ref-felknor_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-felknor-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rediscovery_of_wreckage">Rediscovery of wreckage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Airlines_Flight_4422&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Rediscovery of wreckage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Many witnesses in the nearby town of <a href="/wiki/Gulkana,_Alaska" title="Gulkana, Alaska">Gulkana, Alaska</a>, saw the crash, and the wreckage was initially located from the air but was completely inaccessible at the time. Snowstorms quickly buried it in a mountain <a href="/wiki/Glacier" title="Glacier">glacier</a>, and it was lost for over 50 years. Over the years, various individuals, lured by rumors of a secret gold cargo shipment from China, searched the mountain and came home empty-handed. Northwest pilot Marc Millican and <a href="/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines" title="Delta Air Lines">Delta</a> pilot Kevin McGregor had been searching the mountain together and on their own since 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-mattick_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mattick-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1997 Millican and McGregor located a few pieces of wreckage but were unable to confirm it was from Northwest 4422. Only in 1999, after obtaining permission from the <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a> and victims' relatives, were they able to remove wreckage confirming it was from Flight 4422.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No secret treasure was ever found. At the time of the crash it was determined the pilots were 23 miles (37 km) off course and may not have seen the mountain at night. An <a href="/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board" title="National Transportation Safety Board">NTSB</a> investigation in 1999 shows the propellers were spinning at high velocity when they struck the mountain, which supports this theory.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In addition to wreckage discovered in 1999, a <a href="/wiki/Mummy" title="Mummy">mummified</a> left hand and arm was found in the Alaska glacier. After nearly a decade, identifiable fingerprints were recovered from the remains by Edward Robinson.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remains were then positively identified by Michael Grimm on September 6, 2007 using fingerprints,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making this the world's oldest known identification of post-mortem remains using fingerprint identification.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The limb was from Francis Joseph Van Zandt, a 36-year-old merchant mariner from Roanoke, Virginia, one of the passengers on Flight 4422. Subsequently, using <a href="/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> from a descendant of Van Zandt, Odile Loreille, an expert in DNA analysis, was also able to identify the remains using mitochondrial and Y-DNA identification.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Only the remains of Francis Joseph Van Zandt were ever recovered or identified. The bodies of the remaining 29 individuals still await possible recovery.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Airlines_Flight_4422&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, Kevin A. McGregor published <i>Flight Of Gold</i>, a non-fiction account of the events of Flight 4422, the multiple previous efforts to locate and explore the crash site, and McGregor and Millican's search for the crash site and its rumored valuable cargo.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Northwest_Airlines_Flight_4422&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident" title="1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident">1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident</a> – Airliner that crashed onto a mountain glacier in 1947 and remained undiscovered until 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1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_923" title="Pan Am Flight 923">Pan Am Flight 923</a> (October 26 1947)*</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1948</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mantell_UFO_incident" title="Mantell UFO incident">Mantell UFO incident</a> (January 7 1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Los_Gatos_DC-3_crash" title="1948 Los Gatos DC-3 crash">Los Gatos DC-3 crash</a> (January 28 1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_705" title="Delta Air Lines Flight 705">Delta Air Lines Flight 705</a> (March 10 1948)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Northwest Airlines Flight 4422</a> (March 12 1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Air_Lines_Flight_624" title="United Air Lines Flight 624">United Air Lines Flight 624</a> (June 1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1948_Lake_Mead_Boeing_B-29_crash" 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Tiger</i> disappearance</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Mar 2</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Heathrow_disaster" title="1948 Heathrow disaster">Heathrow disaster</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Mar 10</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_705" title="Delta Air Lines Flight 705">Delta Air Lines Flight 705</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Mar 12</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Northwest Airlines Flight 4422</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Apr 5</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Gatow_air_disaster" title="1948 Gatow air disaster">Gatow air disaster</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Apr 15</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_1-10" title="Pan Am Flight 1-10">Pan Am Flight 1-10</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Apr 21</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/British_European_Airways_Flight_S200P" title="British European Airways Flight S200P">British European Airways Flight S200P</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Apr 24</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Bodaybo_Li-2_crash" title="1948 Bodaybo Li-2 crash">Bodaybo Li-2 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">May 12</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Sabena_Douglas_DC-4_crash" title="1948 Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash">Sabena Douglas DC-4 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">May 17</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Cebu_Philippine_Air_Lines_DC-3_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Cebu Philippine Air Lines DC-3 crash">Cebu Philippine Air Lines DC-3 crash</a></div></div><div><div 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style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Lake_Mead_Boeing_B-29_crash" title="1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash">Lake Mead B-29 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 1</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Air_France_Flight_072" title="Air France Flight 072">Air France Flight 072</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 29</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_421" title="Northwest Airlines Flight 421">Northwest Airlines Flight 421</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Aug 31</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Sabena_Douglas_C-47_crash" title="1948 Sabena Douglas C-47 crash">Sabena Douglas C-47 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Sep 2</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Australian_National_Airways_DC-3_crash" title="1948 Australian National Airways DC-3 crash">Australian National Airways DC-3 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Sep 3</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Royal_Air_Force_Avro_Lancaster_crash" title="1948 Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster crash">Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Oct 2</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Bukken_Bruse_disaster" title="Bukken Bruse disaster"><i>Bukken Bruse</i> disaster</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Oct 6</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Waycross_B-29_crash" class="mw-redirect" title="1948 Waycross B-29 crash">Waycross B-29 crash</a></div></div><div><div style="width:4em;display:inline-block;">Oct 12</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/1948_Aeroflot_Ilyushin_Il-12_crash" title="1948 Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 crash">Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 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