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