ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 339081
| Date: | Friday 1 December 1944 |
| Time: | 02:58 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-209 |
| Owner/operator: | Transcontinental & Western Air - TWA |
| Registration: | NC17322 |
| MSN: | 1968 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 22180 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G202A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 23 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 10 km from Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR) -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | San Francisco Municipal Airport, CA (SFO/KSFO) |
| Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR) | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
TWA's Flight 18 departed from San Francisco at 12:54 a.m. on the first leg of a transcontinental flight to New York. The first scheduled landing was Burbank. The flight was cleared to Burbank Airport for a standard instrument approach. During the approach the plane descended under instrument conditions to such a low altitude as to clip the tree tops and strike a power line pole and then crashed. In a normal approach the plane would have flown over this point at an altitude of about 1650 feet above the ground.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "On the basis of the evidence available the Board finds that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's deviation from the standard instrument approach procedure when he descended below the established safe minimum altitude. A contributing factor was the company's failure to enforce adherence to company procedures."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 3236-44
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