ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335699
Date: | Saturday 29 December 1951 |
Time: | 22:25 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando |
Owner/operator: | Continental Charters |
Registration: | N3944C |
MSN: | 30466 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 26 / Occupants: 40 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Salamanca, NY -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Pittsburgh (unknown airport), PA |
Destination airport: | Buffalo Airport, NY |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Despite the instrument weather conditions, Flight 44-2 departed Pittsburgh at 21:47 on a VFR flight plan. The crew flew at a low altitude in order to maintain visual reference. Near Little Valley, NY the aircraft flew into a wooded area on a hill, some 15 miles off the direct route to Buffalo.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's poor judgement in attempting a flight by visual reference during instrument weather conditions."
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:
CAB File No. 1-0101
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