Crash-aerien 30 MAY 1947 d'un Douglas C-54B-15-DO (DC-4) NC88814 - Bainbridge, MD
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Statuts:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:vendredi 30 mai 1947
Heure:17:41
Type/Sous-type:Silhouette image of generic DC4 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Douglas C-54B-15-DO (DC-4)
Compagnie:Eastern Air Lines
Immatriculation: NC88814
Numéro de série: 18380
Année de Fabrication: 1944
Heures de vol:3623
Equipage:victimes: 4 / à bord: 4
Passagers:victimes: 49 / à bord: 49
Total:victimes: 53 / à bord: 53
Dégats de l'appareil: Détruit
Conséquences: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Lieu de l'accident:3 km (1.9 milles) E of Bainbridge, MD (   Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
Phase de vol: En vol (ENR)
Nature:Transport de Passagers Nat.
Aéroport de départ:Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR), Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Aéroport de destination:Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA), Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Numéro de vol:EA605
Détails:
Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 departed Newark Airport, New Jersey, USA at 17:04 for a domestic flight to Miami, Florida.
The DC-4 climbed to its assigned cruising altitude of 4000 feet and the crew made position reports at 17:10 and 17:27 hours.
About 17:41 witnesses saw the aircraft enter a steepening dive until it struck the ground at high speed in a partially inverted attitude. The aircraft impacted moderately to densely wooded area with trees 60-70 feet high.

The investigation of this accident was at the time the most intensive in the history of the Civil Aeronautics Board's Safety Bureau.
It was found that the empennage disintegrated during the dive but whether failure of the empennage and/or its controls was an effect or a cause of the dive was not discovered.

Probable Cause:

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was a sudden loss of control, for reasons unknown, resulting in a dive to the ground."

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: CAB
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 1 year and 1 months
Accident number: File No. 1 0049-47
Download report: Final report

Sources:
» CAB File No. 1 0049-47


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Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Newark International Airport, NJ et Miami International Airport, FL est de 1739 km (1087 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.

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