Statuts:	Enquête Officielle
Date:	03 MAR 1946
Heure:	08:12 PST
Type/Sous-type:	Douglas DC-3-227B
Compagnie:	American Airlines
Immatriculation:	NC21799
Numéro de série:	2203
Année de Fabrication:	1940
Heures de vol:	16322
Moteurs:	2 Wright G-102
Equipage:	victimes: 3 / à bord: 3
Passagers:	victimes: 22 / à bord: 22
Total:	victimes: 25 / à bord: 25
Dégats de l'appareil:	Perte Totale
Conséquences:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:	Thing Mountain, CA (Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
Phase de vol:	En vol (ENR)
Nature:	Transport de Passagers Nat.
Aéroport de départ:	Tucson International Airport, AZ (TUS/KTUS), Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Aéroport de destination:	San Diego (unknown airport), CA, Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Numéro de vol:	6-103

Détails:
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."

Sources:
» CAB File No. 323-46
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