ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335391
Date: | Friday 20 March 1953 |
Time: | 18:38 |
Type: | Douglas C-54G-10-DO (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Transocean Air Lines |
Registration: | N88942 |
MSN: | 36076 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Total airframe hrs: | 5976 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2000-4 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 35 / Occupants: 35 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 19 km SW of Alvarado, CA -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Roswell-Industrial Airport, NM (ROW/KROW) |
Destination airport: | Oakland International Airport, CA (OAK/KOAK) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Transocean Air Lines Flight 942 departed Roswell at 12:11 for Oakland. The flight was for the purpose of transporting military personnel. After departing Roswell the flight progressed in a routine manner and at 14:51, when in the vicinity of Winslow, Arizona, the Defense VFR flight plan was changed to IFR, still at least 500 feet on top of clouds. At 18:19 the flight reported over the Newark, California, compass locator and fan marker at 8,000 feet where it held for 11 minutes. At 18:27, Oakland Approach Control cleared Flight 942 for a straight-in range approach, to descend in the holding pattern to cross the Newark compass locator at 3,500 feet and to report leaving each 1,000-foot level. Three minutes later, at 18:30, the flight reported leaving 8,000 feet, and subsequently reported leaving each 1,000-foot level. At 18:36, it reported being at 3,500 feet leaving the Newark compass locator inbound. Almost immediately thereafter the aircraft became uncontrollable. The aircraft descended in a steep right wing low slipping attitude until it crashed in a large flat field near Alvarado, CA.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The loss of control of the aircraft for reasons unknown, during its descent from the Newark compass locator."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CAB File No, 1-0016
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 39-AN/34 (60-63)
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