The inspiration for “mercy missions” traces back to Nov. 19, 1946, when an off-course American C-53 — the paratroop version of the DC-3/C-47 — with four crewmen and eight military VIPs aboard crashed into the Swiss Alps. All survived, but they were stranded in deep snow on a high glacier with no...
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