| Date: | Saturday 29 December 1951 |
| Time: | 22:25 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-50-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Continental Charters |
| Registration: | N3944C |
| MSN: | 30466 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 26 / Occupants: 40 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Salamanca, NY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Pittsburgh (unknown airport), PA |
| Buffalo Airport, NY | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Despite the instrument weather conditions, Flight 44-2 departed Pittsburgh at 21:47 on a VFR flight plan. The crew flew at a low altitude in order to maintain visual reference. Near Little Valley, NY the aircraft flew into a wooded area on a hill, some 15 miles off the direct route to Buffalo.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The captain's poor judgement in attempting a flight by visual reference during instrument weather conditions."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 1-0101
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