Date:	Wednesday 22 December 1954
Time:	23:00
Type:	Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3C)
Owner/operator:	Johnson Flying Service
Registration:	N24320
MSN:	20197
Year of manufacture:	1944
Total airframe hrs:	5738 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-S1C3-G
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 28
Aircraft damage:	Substantial, repaired
Category:	Accident
Location:	3 km SE of Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Airport, PA (AGC) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Newark International Airport, NJ (EWR/KEWR)
Destination airport:	Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Airport, PA (AGC/KAGC)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Ditched in Monongahela River following fuel exhaustion. The aircraft was on a civil air movement flight of military personnel to Tacoma. The airplane was repaired.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Fuel exhaustion brought about by inadequate flight planning. Contributing factors were inadequate crew supervision and training."

ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 47-AN/42 (205-210)
The Pittsburgh Press - Dec 23, 1954

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; West Memphis Municipal Airport, AR (AWM); February 1993

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