NC-1946 — accident record & aircraft history

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Safety history

January 16, 1942AccidentHull loss
The Board determined that the probable cause of the accident was "the failure of the captain after departure from Las Vegas to follow the proper course by making use of the navigational facilities available to him." Contributing factors cited by the Board included the use of an erroneous compass course, the wartime blackout of most beacons in the neighborhood of the accident, and the pilot's failure to comply with the TWA directive requesting pilots to confine their flights to actual on-course s
Douglas DC-3 · 22 fatalities
Upon the basis of the foregoing findings and of the entire record available at this time, investigation board found that the probable cause of the accident was the failure of the captain after departure from Las Vegas to follow the proper course by making use of the navigational facilities available to him. Full accident record