- | 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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