Editing Mount Constance (section)

== History ==

In 1853, surveyor [[George Davidson (geographer)|George Davidson]] named three mountains in the Olympics. He named [[Mount Ellinor]] for Ellinor Fauntleroy, who later became his wife, Mount Constance for Ellinor's older sister and [[The Brothers (Olympic Mountains)|The Brothers]] for her two brothers.<ref name="lewis">{{cite journal |title=The story of three Olympic peaks |journal=Washington Historical Quarterly |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=182–86 |url=https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/WHQ/article/viewFile/5032/4109 |access-date=2011-01-05}}</ref>

A U.S. Army bomber plane from [[McChord Field]] crashed {{convert|800|ft}} below the peak of Mount Constance in September 1941, killing all six aboard.<ref>{{cite journal |publisher=United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture |date=November 1941 |volume=25 |number=19 |location=Washington, DC |title=Fall Searching Season in Full Swing |journal=Forest Service Bulletin |page=7}} Available at [[:File:Service bulletin (IA servicebulletin2512unit).pdf|Wikimedia Commons]].</ref>
21 March 1975: an air traffic controller confused aircraft call signs and cleared a McChord AFB based C-141A, 64–0641, of the 62d Military Airlift Wing, to descend below safe minimums and it impacted Mount Constance in the Olympic National Forest, Washington, killing 16 passengers and crew