Date:	Tuesday 12 July 1949
Time:	07:43
Type:	Curtiss C-46E-1-CS Commando
Owner/operator:	Standard Airlines
Registration:	N79978
MSN:	2936
Year of manufacture:	1945
Total airframe hrs:	1515 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-2800-75-5E-8
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 48
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Chatsworth, CA -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Albuquerque Municipal Airport, NM (ABQ/KABQ)
Destination airport:	Hollywood-Lockheed Air Terminal, CA (BUR/KBUR)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Standard Airlines flight departed Albuquerque at 04:24 for a flight to Burbank. At 07:36 the crew were cleared to land at Burbank; nothing more was heard from the flight. It appeared that the Curtiss had crashed on approach, striking the ground at 1890 feet asl, some 430 feet below the crest of Santa Susana Pass.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's action in descending below the prescribed minimum altitude while executing an instrument approach to the Burbank Airport."

Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 49)
CAB File No. 1-0052
Oakland Tribune California, 13 July 1949

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