That check in was the last anyone ever heard from the Skymaster. There were radio checkpoints every half-hour along the way, meant to keep pilots on track and out of the mountains. The air route from Anchorage to Montana was notoriously rough. “My last words to Joycie were: ‘If you have to jump give the baby to (Roy),” Robert Espe later told a reporter.Ībout two hours after take off, the Skymaster’s radio operator checked in over Snag, a tiny goldrush settlement on the Yukon’s White River. Roy Jones, a friend from the base at the end of his service who was flying home to be discharged. Everyone on board that day was fitted with a parachute. It was a big, snub-nosed metal hotdog of a plane with an eight-person crew and room for 50 passengers. The Douglas C-54D Skymaster the Espes boarded was a World War II-era transport carrier based out of El Paso, Texas. From there she planned to go to Rifle, Colorado, where she had close friends, to give birth to her second child. servicemen, she was flying from the military base in Anchorage, south over the Yukon, to Great Falls, Montana, on leave.
Along with her son and 42 others, all U.S.
A native of Hapur, India, she was struggling with the Alaskan winter. Joyce Espe was seven months pregnant at the time. It was a snowy day, a month out from the winter solstice. Air Force, waved goodbye to his wife Joyce and two-year-old son Victor on a remote air field outside Anchorage, Alaska. On January, 26,1950, Robert Espe, a master seargant in the U.S. ONE LOST AIRPLANE - 44 MISSING PEOPLE - AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEYĪ Douglas C-54 Skymaster plane was bound for Montana carrying 44 crew and passengers from Anchorage, Alaska, when it disappeared over Canada.
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