Date:	Sunday 19 January 1930
Time:	18:23
Type:	Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor
Owner/operator:	Maddux Airlines
Registration:	NC9689
MSN:	5-AT-046
Year of manufacture:	1929
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Oceanside, CA -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Tijuana-Agua Caliente Airport
Destination airport:	Los Angeles-Grand Central Terminal, CA

Narrative:
The Ford 5-AT-C Tri-Motor was destroyed by fire after it impacted the ground near Oceanside, California in poor weather conditions. The aircraft had departed Agua Caliente, Mexico at 17:30 hours. The flight ran into blinding rain from a sudden squall that had blown in from the Pacific. The aircraft suddenly lost altitude and the left wing tip touched the ground, throwing the plane on its nose.

The T.A.T.-Maddux technical board of inquiry stated that the accident was the result of "a local weather condition of unpredicted and unforeseen characteristics."

The Ford Tri-Motor 1926-1992 / William T. Larkins
Disaster in the Air / By Edgar A. Haine, 2000

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