ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336271
| Date: | Wednesday 7 December 1949 |
| Time: | 17:15 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-1-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | California Arrow Airlines |
| Registration: | NC60256 |
| MSN: | 9201 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 7722 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-65 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 10 km E of Vallejo, CA -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Oakland Municipal Airport, CA (OAK/KOAK) |
| Sacramento (unknown airport), CA | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The flight departed Burbank at 14:20 for Oakland and Sacramento. Following takeoff from Oakland at 16:56, the flight cruised five miles northwest of the Oakland Airport for seven minutes while waiting for receipt of an instrument flight clearance which provided for a cruising altitude of 4,000 feet to Sacramento. The flight then proceeded on course, and at 17:08 reported over the Richmond Radio Range Intersection, 16 miles northwest of Oakland, stating that it would be over the Fairfield Radio Range Station at 17:23. This was the last communication received from the flight. Proceeding along Amber Airway 8, the aircraft began to descend for unknown reasons. The aircraft struck a hill at an elevation of 782 feet or approximately 3,200 feet below the flights assigned cruising altitude.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Failure of the flight to fly at the assigned altitude on an instrument flight plan, which resulted in the aircraft striking a hill obscured by clouds."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No: 1-0132
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