Accident
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Estado: | Final |
| Fecha: | 20 MAR 1953 |
| Hora: | 18:38 |
| Tipo: | Douglas C-54G-10-DO |
| Operador: | Transocean Air Lines |
| Registración: | N88942 |
| Numéro de série: | 36076 |
| Año de Construcción: | 1945 |
| Horas Totales de la Célula: | 5976 |
| Motores: | 4 Pratt & Whitney R-2000-4 |
| Tripulación: | Fatalidades: 5 / Ocupantes: 5 |
| Pasajeros: | Fatalidades: 30 / Ocupantes: 30 |
| Total: | Fatalidades: 35 / Ocupantes: 35 |
| Daños en la Aeronave: | Destruido |
| Consecuencias: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Ubicación: | 19 km (11.9 milles) SW fo Alvarado, CA (Estados Unidos de América)
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| Fase: | En ruta (ENR) |
| Naturaleza: | Vuelo Doméstico No Programado |
| Aeropuerto de Salida: | Roswell-Industrial Airport, NM (ROW/KROW), Estados Unidos de América |
| Oakland International Airport, CA (OAK/KOAK), Estados Unidos de América | |
| Número de Vuelo: | 942 |
Transocean Air Lines Flight 942 departed Roswell at 12:11 for Oakland. The flight was for the purpose of transporting military personnel. After departing Roswell the flight progressed in a routine manner and at 14:51, when in the vicinity of Winslow, Arizona, the Defense VFR flight plan was changed to IFR, still at least 500 feet on top of clouds. At 18:19 the flight reported over the Newark, California, compass locator and fan marker at 8,000 feet where it held for 11 minutes. At 18:27, Oakland Approach Control cleared Flight 942 for a straight-in range approach, to descend in the holding pattern to cross the Newark compass locator at 3,500 feet and to report leaving each 1,000-foot level. Three minutes later, at 18:30, the flight reported leaving 8,000 feet, and subsequently reported leaving each 1,000-foot level. At 18:36, it reported being at 3,500 feet leaving the Newark compass locator inbound. Almost immediately thereafter the aircraft became uncontrollable. The aircraft descended in a steep right wing low slipping attitude until it crashed in a large flat field near Alvarado, CA.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The loss of control of the aircraft for reasons unknown, during its descent from the Newark compass locator." Fuentes:
» CAB File No, 1-0016
» ICAO Accident Digest Circular 39-AN/34 (60-63)
Sample newspaper article from Newspaperarchive.com
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Distance from Roswell-Industrial Airport, NM to Oakland International Airport, CA as the crow flies is 1661 km (1038 miles).
Distance from Roswell-Industrial Airport, NM to Oakland International Airport, CA as the crow flies is 1661 km (1038 miles).
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