ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337483
| Date: | Sunday 30 December 1945 |
| Time: | 21:13 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-201 |
| Owner/operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | NC18123 |
| MSN: | 1999 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 21348 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 14 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Philadelphia International Airport, PA (PHL/KPHL) |
| New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA/KLGA) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Eastern Air Lines' Flight 14 attempting to land at La Guardia Field, New York, was unable to stop within the boundary of the airport, crashed through a localizer building located at the end of the runway and came to rest in Flushing Bay.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The decision of the pilot in attempting a landing from an approach which was too high and too fast."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 4983-45
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