Northwest Airlines Flight 2 was a Lockheed Super Electra aircraft , registration NC17388 , which crashed Motion into the Bridger Mountains about 12 miles ( 19 km ) northeast of Bozeman , Montana , on January 10 , 1938 .

The flight had just left Departing Butte and was flying Motion over Belgrade , Montana when it diverted Motion to the north to avoid Preventing_or_letting a dust storm Catastrophe over Bozeman Pass .

Sheriff Lovitt I. Westlake of Bozeman , who led a party on bobsleds to the crash scene , said Telling he counted nine bodies .

Weather reports Reporting from surrounding Surrounding communities as well as the existence Presence of the dust storm Catastrophe in Bozeman Pass led Causation investigators to believe that the aircraft likely encountered severe to extreme turbulence which may have initiated Process_start the flutter Motion .

In 1939 , a large Moderne clock tower was erected Building at Felts Field airport in Spokane , Washington as a memorial to the victims Catastrophe of the Flight 2 crash Catastrophe in Bozeman .

This accident occurred Coming_to_be almost exactly one year after Northwest Airlines Flight 2 crashed Catastrophe near Bozeman , Montana .