- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: December 22, 1934
Time: 0252
Location: Sunbright, Tennessee
Operator: American Airlines
Flight #: ?
Route: Louisville, KY - Nashville, TN
AC Type: Lockheed Orion 9D
Registration: NC12286
cn / ln: 198
Aboard: 1   (passengers:0  crew:1)
Fatalities: 1   (passengers:0  crew:1)
Ground: 0
Summary: Crashed into Big Pilot mountain, 50 feet from the top of the summit, four miles from Sunbright, in poor visibility. The battery-generator system failed, thus causing an error in the ship's compass and probably affecting other essential navigation instruments.
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