Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 12 JUL 1949 |
| Time: | 07:43 |
| Type: | Curtiss C-46E-1-CS Commando |
| Operator: | Standard Airlines |
| Registration: | N79978 |
| C/n / msn: | 2936 |
| First flight: | |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1515 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2800-75-5E-8 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 32 / Occupants: 44 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 48 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Chatsworth, CA (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Albuquerque Municipal Airport, NM (ABQ/KABQ), United States of America |
| Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 897R |
The Standard Airlines flight departed Albuquerque at 04:24 for a flight to Burbank. At 07:36 the crew were cleared to land at Burbank; nothing more was heard from the flight. It appeared that the Curtiss had crashed on approach, striking the ground at 1890 feet asl, some 430 feet below the crest of Santa Susana Pass.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's action in descending below the prescribed minimum altitude while executing an instrument approach to the Burbank Airport." Sources:
» Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 49)
» CAB File No. 1-0052
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
Follow-up / safety actions
Standard Airlines was ordered to cease non-scheduled operations because of regulation violations.
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Albuquerque Municipal Airport, NM to Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA as the crow flies is 1071 km (670 miles).
Distance from Albuquerque Municipal Airport, NM to Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA as the crow flies is 1071 km (670 miles).
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