Date: | November 1, 1949 |
Location: | Arlington, Virginia |
Aircraft: | Douglas C-54B |
Reg: | N88727 |
Airline: | Eastern Air Lines |
Flight No: | 537 |
Fatalities: | 55 : 55 |
The front section of an Eastern Airlines Douglas C-54 that crashed into the Potomac River after a midair collision with a U.S. Air Force P-38. U.S. Representatives George Bates from Massachusetts and Michael Kennedy from New York were killed in the crash along with all 53 others aboard. |