Lost Airliner Found in Alaska

Two airline pilots have located the wreckage of a Northwest Airlines Douglas DC-4 missing since its March 1948 crash into Alaska's Mount Sanford. An engine data plate, a nearly-intact propeller and silverware bearing the Northwest Airlines logo of the period were discovered within a mile-long debris...

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