ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 337100
| Date: | Saturday 28 December 1946 |
| Time: | 09:19 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-50A-DO (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | American Airlines |
| Registration: | NC15577 |
| MSN: | 4805 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1941 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11920 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-1820-G102 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 21 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Michigan City, IN -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Detroit (unknown airport), MI |
| Chicago (unknown airport), IL | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
DC-3 NC15577 departed Michigan at 07:48, about six minutes behind schedule on an instrument flight plan to cruise at 2,500 feet to Chicago. At 08:40 the flight was instructed by Chicago ARTCC to climb to 4,000 feet, which altitude it was supposed to stay at until 10 minutes past South Bend. At 09:18 the pilot reported: "Both engines going bad descending at 1,000 feet per minute looking for opening. Altitude is at present 900 feet." Chicago suggested to return to South Bend, but the DC-3 could not make it and crash-landed near Michigan City.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accumulation of carburetor ice following the loss of power in both engines as a result of fuel starvation. The reason for fuel starvation could not be determined."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 5566-46
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