| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | December 15, 1942 |
| Time: | 0122 |
| Location: | Fairfield, Utah |
| Operator: | Western Airlines |
| Flight #: | 1 |
| Route: | Salt Lake - Las Vegas - Burbank |
| AC Type: | Douglas DC-3A |
| Registration: | NC16060 |
| cn / ln: | 1900 |
| Aboard: | 19 (passengers:15 crew:4) |
| Fatalities: | 17 (passengers:13 crew:4) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Crashed after performing a violent maneuver. Failure of the left, or possibly both wing tips and of the horizontal tail surfaces as a result of a sever pull-up which caused unusual and abnormally high air loads. The reason the pull-up maneuver was not determined. |
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