Air disaster

American Airlines Flight 1

30 Oct 1941 · 42.76° N, 81.40° W

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When
30 Oct 1941
Kind
Air disaster
Coordinates
42.76° N, 81.40° W
Description
crash over Ontario with no survivors
Deaths
20

American Airlines Flight 1 (1941)

Crash over Ontario with no survivors

American Airlines Flight 1, dubbed "the New Yorker", 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 operating the…

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