A Sunday afternoon eagle-watching episode ended up with a pick-up, semi-tractor cattle truck crash on Highway 200. I spoke with investigating Montana Highway Patrol trooper Drew Novak about the incident. That interview is attached.
On January 25, 1962 a Montana Air National Guard C-47 aircraft was hit by a hurricane force wind that sheared off its right wing. The airplane which was flying to Cut Bank crashed into the Wolf Creek area killing all members on the plane. Among the dead were executive secretary Dennis Gordon, Montana National Guard Majors Joseph Devine and Clifford Hanson, Crew Chief Charles Ballard, the state agriculture commissioner Edward Wren, and the Governor of Montana Donald G. Nutter.
Early this afternoon a man driving westbound on Industry Street, in Missoula, lost control of his Subaru on the icy road and smashed into a power pole.