| Date: | Thursday 4 November 1948 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Pacific Alaska Air Express |
| Registration: | NC66637 |
| MSN: | 11800 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4320 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Cape Spencer, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Yakutat Airport, AK (YAK/PAYA) |
| Annette Island Airport, AK (ANN/PANT) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
At approximately 22:26, November 3, 1948. the flight departed Anchorage for Seattle via Homer, Yakutat, and Annette Island, Alaska. The flight arrived at Yakutat at 02:57. At Yakutat an instrument flight plan was filed specifying a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet to Annette Island. At 04:07, the flight took off from Yakutat. A position report was received from the flight by Gustavus Radio at 05:10 to the effect that the flight was cruising at 10,000 feet, 146 miles southeast of Yakutat, and that it estimated arriving over Sitka, Alaska, at 05:44. This was the last communication received from the flight. The plane was declared missing and the wreckage was never found.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "There is not sufficient evidence for the Board to make any determination as to the probable cause for this accident."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 1-0121
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