- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | November 04, 1944 |
Time: | 1715 |
Location: | Hanford, California |
Operator: | Trans Continental and Western Air |
Flight #: | 8 |
Route: | San Francisco - New York City |
AC Type: | Douglas DC-3 |
Registration: | NC28310 |
cn / ln: | 2251 |
Aboard: | 24 (passengers:21 crew:3) |
Fatalities: | 24 (passengers:21 crew:3) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | The wing separated from the aircraft after entering a thunderstorm and encountering severe turbulence. The failure of the airplane's structure as a result of severe turbulence, an important contributing cause was the fact that the airplane was undoubtedly in an abnormal attitude of flight, i.e., inverted, at the instant of structural failure. The cause of the airplane becoming inverted was not determined. |
Sources
Copyright © Richard Kebabjian / www.planecrashinfo.com