American Airlines Flight 1 (1941)
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American Airlines Flight 1,[lower-alpha 1] dubbed "the New Yorker",[3] was a regularly scheduled passenger flight. On October 30, 1941, when the route was a multiple stop flight from La Guardia Airport to Chicago Municipal Airport with intermediate stops at Newark, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and South Bend, Indiana, on the flight's leg between Buffalo and Detroit, the American Airlines Douglas DC-3-277B operating the route crashed into a wheat field approximately one half mile east of the town of Lawrence Station, Ontario, southwest of London. All aboard, including 17 passengers and 3 crew, were killed.[4] It was the second of three fatal crashes during an operation of American Airlines Flight 1.
Accident | |
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Date | October 30, 1941 (1941-10-30) |
Summary | Undetermined |
Site | Lawrence Station, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada 42.762516°N 81.405637°W / 42.762516; -81.405637 |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Douglas DC-3-277B |
Aircraft name | Flagship Erie |
Operator | American Airlines |
Registration | NC25663 |
Flight origin | New York City |
1st stopover | Newark, New Jersey |
2nd stopover | Buffalo, New York |
3rd stopover | Detroit, Michigan |
Last stopover | South Bend, Indiana |
Destination | Chicago, Illinois |
Occupants | 20 |
Passengers | 17 |
Crew | 3 |
Fatalities | 20 |
Survivors | 0 |