Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 31 JAN 1946 |
| Time: | 02:47 |
| Type: | Douglas DC-3-194H |
| Operator: | United Air Lines |
| Registration: | NC25675 |
| C/n / msn: | 2147 |
| First flight: | 1939 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 16333 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Elk Mountain, WY (United States of America) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Boise Air Terminal, ID (BOI/KBOI), United States of America |
| Denver (unknown airport), CO, United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 14 |
The crew made an unauthorized deviation from the airway, trying to reduce distance on a 'dog-leg' of the airway. The DC-3 collided with Elk Mountain 340 feet below the crest, at an elevation approximately 180 feet below its assigned cruising altitude (11,000 feet) and 4 1/2 miles south of Airway Green 3.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The deviation from the prescribed route at an altitude insufficient to assure adequate clearance over Elk Mountain." Events:
Sources:
» CAB File No. 257-46
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Douglas DC-3
- 1187th loss
- ca 13.000 built
- 36th worst accident (at the time)
- 174th worst accident (currently)
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