ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337389
| Date: | Sunday 3 March 1946 |
| Time: | 08:12 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-277B |
| Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | NC21799 |
| MSN: | 2203 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 16322 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G102 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 25 / Occupants: 25 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Thing Mountain, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tucson International Airport, AZ (TUS/KTUS) |
| San Diego (unknown airport), CA | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 323-46
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