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American Airlines "Flagship" DC-3 NC15577 Los Angeles Airport (1946)

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Channel: AIRBOYD · 2010 · Autos & Vehicles

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It's a shorter clip from a longer film about pacific trade routes, but here are several DC-3 "Flagships" at Los Angeles including a Flagship Airfreighter

The passenger model seen is NC15577 which crashed on 28 December 1946 in Michigan City, Indiana from carburetor ice, according to the report.

AA Flight 2207

C-3 NC15577 departed Michigan at 07:48, about six minutes behind schedule on an instrument flight plan to cruise at 2,500 feet to Chicago. At 08:40 the flight was instructed by Chicago ARTCC to climb to 4,000 feet, which altitude it was supposed to stay at until 10 minutes past South Bend. At 09:18 the pilot reported: "Both engines going bad descending at 1,000 feet per minute looking for opening. Altitude is at present 900 feet." Chicago suggested to return to South Bend, but the DC-3 could not make it and crash-landed near Michigan City.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accumulation of carburetor ice following the loss of power in both engines as a result of fuel starvation. The reason for fuel starvation could not be determined."

Final Flight West: 
Captain Frank Mapes Ham
F/O Harman Edwin Ring 
December 28, 1946  

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