| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | January 28, 1948 |
| Time: | 1050 |
| Location: | Diablo Mts., California |
| Operator: | Airline Transport Carriers |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Burbank - Oakland |
| AC Type: | Douglas DC-3 (C-47B-DK) |
| Registration: | NC36480 |
| cn / ln: | 16850/33598 |
| Aboard: | 32 (passengers:29 crew:3) |
| Fatalities: | 32 (passengers:29 crew:3) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The crew took the wrong plane which was scheduled for maintenance. An in-flight fire caused the engine and then wing to separate from the aircraft and crash out of control. Tests showed a fuel pump was broken in the left engine and would spray gasoline out where it could be ignited by the exhaust. The failure of the left wing in flight as a result of damage by fire which had its source in a defective left engine driven fuel pump.The crash became the impetus for the Woody Guthrie song "Deportee." |
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