What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1951
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 37.61° N, 121.99° W
- Description
- Transcontinental flight that crashed in 1951
- Deaths
- 50
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
United Air Lines Flight 615
1951 aviation accident
United Air Lines Flight 615 was a US transcontinental east–west airline service from Boston to Hartford, Cleveland, Chicago, Oakland and San Francisco. On August 24, 1951, the Douglas DC-6 with registration N37550 operating the service, crashed on approach to Oakland, causing the death of all 44 passengers and 6 crew members on board.
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