Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | vendredi 30 mai 1947 |
Heure: | 17:41 |
Type/Sous-type: | 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)
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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
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Sources:
» CAB File No. 1 0049-47
Photos
Plan
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.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.