ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337651
| Date: | Wednesday 26 September 1945 |
| Time: | 13:17 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-49J (DC-3-454) |
| Owner/operator: | Transcontinental & Western Air - TWA |
| Registration: | NC19939 |
| MSN: | 4992 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8000 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G202A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 11 km SW Chicago-Municipal Airport, IL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Chicago Municipal Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW) |
| Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, MO (MKC/KMKC) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
TWA Flight 47 departed Chicago at 13:12. The DC-3 had just reached its assigned 2000 feet altitude when it collided with a Boeing A75N1 training aircraft (NC51445). The upper right wing of the Boeing was destroyed by the right wing of the airliner and the Boeing fell almost vertically to the ground. Both occupants were killed. Despite extensive damage to the leading edge of its right wing the DC-3 was landed at the Chicago Municipal Airport without further damage and without injury to either occupant.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Upon the basis of the foregoing thy Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was lack of vigilance on the part of the pilots of both aircraft. Reduced horizontal visibility may have been a contributing factor."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 3283-45
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 November 1944 | NC28310 | Transcontinental & Western Air - TWA | 24 | near Hanford, CA | |
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