Date: | Friday 18 April 1952 |
Time: | 03:34 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Robin Airlines |
Registration: | N8404C |
MSN: | 22466 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-75 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 29 / Occupants: 29 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 3 km E of Whittier, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Phoenix-Sky Harbor International Airport, AZ (PHX/KPHX) |
Destination airport: | Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Curtiss C-46 had been cleared for a straight-in instrument approach. The crew were told to maintain 3000 feet until leaving the Downey marker. The aircraft descended below this altitude and crashed into a hill at 980 feet altitude. At the time of this accident Robin Airlines, Inc., was doing business as North Continent Airlines, although no authorization to change its name had been obtained from the Civil Aeronautics Board.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The action of the pilot in voluntarily descending below the minimum altitude for which he was cleared, and attempting an approach at an altitude too low to clear the terrain."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 54)
CAB File No. 1-0027
Location
Images:
photo (c) Bill Austin; near Whittier, CA; 19 April 1952; (CC:by-sa)
photo (c) Bill Austin; near Whittier, CA; 19 April 1952; (CC:by-sa)
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