| Date: | Wednesday 28 July 1943 |
| Time: | 22:43 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-178 |
| Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | NC16014 |
| MSN: | 1552 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1936 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 17991 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G102 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 22 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km W of Trammel, KY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Louisville-Bowman Field, KY (LOU/KLOU) |
| Nashville Metropolitan Airport, TN (BNA/KBNA) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Flight 63 originated at and left Cleveland about 17:42.The flight was cleared to Memphis with intermediate stops scheduled at Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Louisville and Nashville. The DC-3, named "Flagship Ohio", arrived at Louisville at 21:42. It was refueled and cleared to take off at 21:54 to fly at 2500 feet to Smiths Grove, Kentucky at 2500 feet and continue to Nashville at 2000 feet with estimated time of arrival at Nashville of 22:54. Near Smiths Grove, in an area with rolling terrain, varying in altitude from 695 to 720 feet above sea level, the plane descended until it contacted trees. The airplane continued through another small clump of trees, then across an open field and stopped in an upright position among several larger trees, about 1000 feet beyond the point of first impact.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Loss of control of the aircraft due to unusually severe turbulence and violent downdraft caused by a thunderstorm of unknown and unpredictable intensity."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 3525-43
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