Status:	Final
Date:	03 MAR 1946
Time:	08:12 PST
Type:	Douglas DC-3-227B
Operator:	American Airlines
Registration:	NC21799
C/n / msn:	2203
First flight:	1940
Total airframe hrs:	16322
Engines:	2 Wright G-102
Crew:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: 22 / Occupants: 22
Total:	Fatalities: 25 / Occupants: 25
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	Thing Mountain, CA (United States of America)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Tucson International Airport, AZ (TUS/KTUS), United States of America
Destination airport:	San Diego (unknown airport), CA, United States of America
Flightnumber:	6-103

Narrative:
At 05:59 the aircraft departed Tucson for a flight to San Diego. At 07:54 the weather report for San Diego read: indefinite ceiling 1,200 feet, broken clouds; visibility 8 miles. Receipt of this information was acknowledged by Flight 6-103 and immediately thereafter the flight reported that it had been over El Centro, California, at 07:53 at 8,000 feet. Somehow the airplane thereafter descended until it crashed into Thing Mountain at an altitude of approx. 4860 feet.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The action of the pilot in descending or permitting a descent to be made, into instrument conditions to an altitude below that required to maintain clearance over Thing Mountain. The reason for this descent has not been determined."

Events:

Sources:
» CAB File No. 323-46
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