What the records say
- When
- 20 Mar 1955
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 37.26° N, 93.40° W
- Description
- 1955 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 711
1955 aviation accident
American Airlines Flight 711 was a scheduled flight departing from Newark, New Jersey to Tulsa, Oklahoma, with several intermediate stops, Springfield, Missouri, being one of them. On March 20, 1955, the aircraft operating the service, a Convair CV-240-0, registration N94234, crashed into a muddy field on approach to land at Springfield Municipal Airport near Springfield, Missouri, killing 13 of the 35 aboard, and in…
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