ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341224
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Date: | Tuesday 15 December 1942 |
Time: | 01:22 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3A-191 |
Owner/operator: | Western Air Lines |
Registration: | NC16060 |
MSN: | 1900 |
Year of manufacture: | 1936 |
Total airframe hrs: | 14773 hours |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 19 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Fairfield, UT -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC) |
Destination airport: | Las Vegas Airport, NV (LSV/KLSV) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Western Trip 1 took off from the Salt Lake City Airport at about 01:05 local time, cleared to Burbank, California with a scheduled stop at Las Vegas, Nevada.
The first and only communication contact Western 1 made was with the Westerns radio and dispatch officer at Salt Lake at 01:07, at which time the flight reported "off the field at Salt Lake at 1:05 a.m."
The aircraft, a DC-3, failed to arrive at the destination and the wreckage was located the next day.
Investigation revealed that normal flight was apparently interrupted at an altitude of approximately 10,200 feet by a failure of the aircraft's structure. The first officer and the copilot-trainee were at the controls at the time the airplane struck the ground while the captain had been in the companion-way, either seated in the jump seat or standing. Weather conditions in the area at the time were satisfactory for the flight and were not a contributing factor to the accident.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the left, or possibly both wing tips and of the horizontal tail surfaces as a result of a severe pull-up which caused unusual and abnormally high air loads. The reason the pull-up maneuver was not determined."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | File No. 2905-42 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 10 months |
Download report: | Final report |
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