ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341224
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| Date: | Tuesday 15 December 1942 |
| Time: | 01:22 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3A-191 |
| Owner/operator: | Western Air Lines |
| Registration: | NC16060 |
| MSN: | 1900 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1936 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 14773 hours |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 19 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Fairfield, UT -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC) |
| Las Vegas Airport, NV (LSV/KLSV) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Western Trip 1 took off from the Salt Lake City Airport at about 01:05 local time, cleared to Burbank, California with a scheduled stop at Las Vegas, Nevada.
The first and only communication contact Western 1 made was with the Westerns radio and dispatch officer at Salt Lake at 01:07, at which time the flight reported "off the field at Salt Lake at 1:05 a.m."
The aircraft, a DC-3, failed to arrive at the destination and the wreckage was located the next day.
Investigation revealed that normal flight was apparently interrupted at an altitude of approximately 10,200 feet by a failure of the aircraft's structure. The first officer and the copilot-trainee were at the controls at the time the airplane struck the ground while the captain had been in the companion-way, either seated in the jump seat or standing. Weather conditions in the area at the time were satisfactory for the flight and were not a contributing factor to the accident.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the left, or possibly both wing tips and of the horizontal tail surfaces as a result of a severe pull-up which caused unusual and abnormally high air loads. The reason the pull-up maneuver was not determined."
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