Telegram re: airplane crash
- Title
- Telegram re: airplane crash
- Creator
- Smith, C. R. (Cyrus Rowlett), 1899-1990
- Institution
- TCU
- Link
- https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40811
- Description
- FWB85DB52 D.WB159 83=TA WASHINGTON DC 28 458P AMON G CARTER= FORT WORTH CLUB FTWORTH TEX= AMERICAN AIRLINES PLANE MADE FORCED LANDING TODAY NEAR MICHIGAN CITY INDIANA PERIOD PILOT AND COPILOT KILLED IN LANDING PERIOD STEWARDESS AND TWO PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY INJURED PERIOD NINETEEN PASSENGERS EITHER NOT INJURED OR NOT SERIOUSLY INJURED PERIOD RADIO FROM PILOT INDICATED EMERGENCY LANDING OCCASIONED BY LOSS OF POWER ON BOTH ENGINES PERIOD NO INFORMATION YET AVAILABLE FOR REASON OF LOSS OF POWER BUT BEST ESTIMATE SEEMS TO BE ICING IN CARBURETORS PERIOD NO STATEMENT ON CAUSE SHOULD BE MADE UNTIL FULLER INFORMATION AVAILABLE= C R SMITH.
- Date
- 1946-12-28
- Decade
- 1940s
- Subjects
- Aviation
- Air travel
- American Airlines
- Airplane crash
- Smith, Cyrus R.
- Source
- Box 09, American Airlines, Inc. - Correspondence 1946 2 of 2 folder, Item 049
- Type
- Document
- Formats
- 8x10 paper
- Rights
- Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph