Statuts:	Enquête Officielle
Date:	13 JUN 1947
Heure:	18:16
Type/Sous-type:	Douglas C-54-DO
Compagnie:	Pennsylvania-Central Airlines
Immatriculation:	N88842
Numéro de série:	3112
Année de Fabrication:	1942
Heures de vol:	8038
Moteurs:	4 Pratt & Whitney R-2000-7
Equipage:	victimes: 3 / à bord: 3
Passagers:	victimes: 47 / à bord: 47
Total:	victimes: 50 / à bord: 50
Dégats de l'appareil:	Détruit
Conséquences:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:	13 km (8.1 milles) SE of Charles Town, WV (Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
Phase de vol:	En vol (ENR)
Nature:	Transport de Passagers Nat.
Aéroport de départ:	Pittsburgh (unknown airport), PA, Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Aéroport de destination:	Washington-National Airport, DC (DCA/KDCA), Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Numéro de vol:	410

Détails:
Flight 410 departed Chicago, at 13:52 on an instrument flight plan with destination Norfolk and with stops scheduled at Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Washington. The flight departed Pittsburgh at 17:24 proceeded to Washington at 7,000 feet. At 18:03 the plane started its descent into Washington. While descending, the plane struck a ridge named Lookout Rock in the Blue Ridge Mountains at an elevation of approximately 1,425 feet

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board finds that the probable cause of this accident was the action of the pilot in descending below the minimum en route altitude under conditions of weather which prevented adequate visual reference to the ground. A contributing cause was the faulty clearance given by Airway Traffic Control, tacitly approved by the company dispatcher, and accepted by Flight 410."

Sources:
» CAB File No. 1-0066-47