
Colony Glacier Crash Recovery
On Nov. 22, 1952, an Air Force C-124 Globemaster II - with 52 passengers and crewmembers aboard - took off from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., in route to Elmendorf Air Force Base, but the plane never made it to its destination. The C-124 crashed into Mount Gannett, less than 40 miles from what is now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Missing for 60 years, on June 9th, 2012, the Army National Guard located some wreckage from the C-124 crash on a routine training mission. Every year since, a team has traveled to the glacier to search and recover human remains and aircraft wreckage.