Accident description
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 30 MAY 1947 |
| Time: | 17:41 |
| Type: | Douglas C-54B-15-DO |
| Operator: | Eastern Air Lines |
| Registration: | N88814 |
| C/n / msn: | 18380 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3623 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 49 / Occupants: 49 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 53 / Occupants: 53 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 3 km (1.9 mls) E of Bainbridge, MD (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR), United States of America |
| Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 605 |
Flight 605 departed Newark (EWR) at 17:04 for a flight to Miami (MIA) and climbed to it's assigned cruising altitude of 4000 feet. At about 17:41 witnesses saw the aircraft enter a steepening dive until it struck the ground at high speed in a partially inverted attitude.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a sudden loss of control, for reasons unknown, resulting in a dive to the ground." Events:
Sources:
» CAB File No. 1 0049-47
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Distance from Newark International Airport, NJ to Miami International Airport, FL as the crow flies is 1739 km (1087 miles).
Distance from Newark International Airport, NJ to Miami International Airport, FL as the crow flies is 1739 km (1087 miles).
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