Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410
1947 aviation accident / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 410 was a scheduled flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Norfolk, Virginia, with intermediate stops in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C. On June 13, 1947, the aircraft serving the flight, a Douglas DC-4, crashed into Lookout Rock in the West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains,[1] while en route to Washington. All 50 passengers and crew on board were killed[2] in what was at the time the second-worst airplane accident in the history of U.S. domestic air travel.[3]
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Accident | |
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Date | June 13, 1947 |
Summary | Pilot error flying below minimum recommended altitude |
Site | Eight miles South of Charles Town, West Virginia 39°9′17.86″N 77°49′41.64″W (approximately) |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Douglas DC-4 |
Operator | Pennsylvania Central Airlines |
Registration | NC-88842 |
Flight origin | Chicago, Illinois, US |
1st stopover | Cleveland, Ohio, US |
Last stopover | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US |
Destination | Norfolk, Virginia, US |
Occupants | 50 |
Passengers | 47 |
Crew | 3 |
Fatalities | 50 |
Survivors | 0 |
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