The 1953 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1954, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator and west of the international date line. Storms that form east of the date line and north of the equator are called hurricanes; see 1953 Pacific hurricane season. Tropical Storms formed in the entire west Pacific basin were assigned a name by the Fleet Weather Center on Guam.
A rare late-season Super Typhoon. Did not affect land. The Lost Hurricane Hunters 3: December 15, 1953 The third typhoon hunter mission lost occurred on December 16, 1953, during a penetration by a Navy PB4Y-2S into Typhoon Doris. The aircraft was part of a six plane squadron, VJ-1/VW-3, COMFAIRGUAM, based at the Naval Air Station in Agana, Guam. The PB4Y-2S aircraft made its initial penetration into Doris' eye at 200–300 feet. As the aircraft radioed back a report at 2245Z, the transmission suddenly ceased. The plane was never heard from again. At the time, Doris was a Category 2 typhoon with sustained winds of 95 knots. Again, given the low penetration altitude of the aircraft, it is likely that a downdraft carried the plane into the sea. It's pretty common to get downdrafts that will cause a 300-foot loss of altitude, despite the attempts of the pilot to climb with full power to the engines. A nine-day long search and rescue operation failed to find any trace of the missing aircraft. Tragically, two aircraft involved in the search and rescue mission crashed, killing 39 more people. The first of these planes was a R4D that crashed into the crater of Agrihan Island, Mariannas, killing all ten crew members. This aircraft was not from the NAS Agana, Guam group. In addition, a B-29 based at Anderson AFB had an engine fail while looking for the missing typhoon hunter aircraft, and crashed during landing into an officer's housing area on Guam. A total of 29 people died in the crash, including at least 11 of the 16 crew members on the aircraft. The nine crewmen lost during the flight into Typhoon Doris were: Pilot J. W. Newhall age 39 Co-pilot S. B. Marsden, age 29 Lt. Cmdr. D. Zimmerman Jr., age 35 Ltjg. F. Troescher Jr., age 26 AL1 F. R. Barnett, age 26 AD1 J. N. Clark, age 32 AD3 E. L. Myer, age 20 AL2 N. J. Stephens, age 23 AO3 A. J. Stott, age 23 https://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/hunter3.asp
