Date:	Sunday 15 March 1959
Time:	00:53
Type:	Convair CV-240-0
Owner/operator:	American Airlines
Registration:	N94273
MSN:	150
Year of manufacture:	1949
Total airframe hrs:	22720 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-2800-83AM4A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,5 km SE of Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	New York-La Guardia Airport, NY (LGA/KLGA)
Destination airport:	Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Collided with a steel tower (96 feet high) while on the second ILS approach. The aircraft crashed in a railroad yard, skidded across tracks.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the pilot's descent below his allowable minimum altitude and his inattention to flight instruments while attempting to locate the runway visually."

ICAO Accident Digest Circular 62-AN/57 (106-108)

photo (c) Pat Bukiri; Chicago-Midway Airport, IL (MDW/KMDW); 15 March 1959

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