Benutzer:131Platypi/Snag

Vorlage:Infobox settlement Snag is a village located on a small, dry-weather sideroad off the Alaska Highway, Vorlage:Convert east of Beaver Creek, Yukon, Canada. The village of Snag is located in a bowl-shaped valley of the White River and its tributaries, including Snag Creek. It was first settled during the Klondike Gold Rush. An aboriginal village was also located approximately Vorlage:Convert away. It was the site of a military airfield, established as part of the Northwest Staging Route, which closed in 1968. In 1947, the village of Snag boasted a population of eight to ten First Nation people and fur traders. An additional staff of fifteen to twenty airport personnel — meteorologists, radio operators, aircraft maintenance men — lived at the airport barracks.

Record temperature

On February 3, 1947, the record-low temperature for continental North America was recorded in Snag: Vorlage:Convert. That same winter, two previous records had already been set: one in December noted various phenomena, particularly sound such as voices being heard clearly miles from their source. There was a clear sky (except for some ice fog), and mild to little wind. There were Vorlage:Convert of snow on the ground, but it was decreasing. Another town Vorlage:Convert northeast of Snag, Fort Selkirk, claimed an even lower temperature of Vorlage:Convert, but the claim could not be confirmed.

Disappearance of aircraft

On 26 January 1950, a Douglas C-54 Skymaster (tail number 42-72469) of the United States Air Force, with 36 passengers (34 service personnel and two civilians) and a crew of eight on board, disappeared on a flight from Alaska to Montana; no wreckage or remains have ever been located.

The aircraft was in the vicinity of Snag when the last contact was made by radio at 17:09.