24.06.2010, 20:27
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Skinpack – 3
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Douglas DC-3 = TWA Airlines 1941 + Carole Lombard Crash
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![[Image: 002_DC3_Lombard1942.jpg]](http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac247/lrrmullen2/002_DC3_Lombard1942.jpg)
Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3 propliner, registration NC1946, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, NY to Burbank, CA via Indianapolis, IN, Saint Louis, MO, Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas, NV.
At 04:00 local time on the morning of January 16, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Carole Lombard, her mother Elizabeth Knight, and her MGM press agent Otto Winkler, boarded Flight 3 to return to California. Lombard, anxious to meet her husband actor Clark Gable in Los Angeles, was returning from a successful War Bonds promotion tour in the Midwest, where she helped raise over US$2,000,000 (she would become the first female casualty of the U.S. war effort in the Second World War.)
Upon arrival in Albuquerque, Lombard and her companions were asked to give up their seats for the continuing flight segment, to make room for 15 U.S. Army Air Corps personnel flying to California. Lombard insisted that because of her War Bonds effort, she too was essential, and convinced the station agent to let her group re-board the flight. Other passengers were removed instead.
After a brief refueling stop at what is now Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, for its final leg to Burbank. Fifteen minutes later, flying nearly seven miles off course, it crashed into a near vertical cliff on Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain Range at 7,770 ft, about 80 ft below the top of the cliff and 730 ft below the summit, killing all on board.
All nineteen passengers on board, including movie star Carole Lombard and her mother, and all three crew members, died in the crash.
![[Image: 001_DC3_Lombard1942.jpg]](http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac247/lrrmullen2/001_DC3_Lombard1942.jpg)
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined it was caused by a navigation error by the captain.
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![[Image: 000_DC3_1941.jpg]](http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac247/lrrmullen2/000_DC3_1941.jpg)
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Hope you have a great flight! ... don´t crash!
Cheers
MAX-theHitman
![[Image: DC3_BANNER3_TWA_1942_Lombard.jpg]](http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac247/lrrmullen2/DC3_BANNER3_TWA_1942_Lombard.jpg)
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Skinpack – 3
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Douglas DC-3 = TWA Airlines 1941 + Carole Lombard Crash
---Put in C47 skin folder ---
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Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3 propliner, registration NC1946, operating as a scheduled domestic passenger flight from New York, NY to Burbank, CA via Indianapolis, IN, Saint Louis, MO, Albuquerque, NM and Las Vegas, NV.
At 04:00 local time on the morning of January 16, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana, Carole Lombard, her mother Elizabeth Knight, and her MGM press agent Otto Winkler, boarded Flight 3 to return to California. Lombard, anxious to meet her husband actor Clark Gable in Los Angeles, was returning from a successful War Bonds promotion tour in the Midwest, where she helped raise over US$2,000,000 (she would become the first female casualty of the U.S. war effort in the Second World War.)
Upon arrival in Albuquerque, Lombard and her companions were asked to give up their seats for the continuing flight segment, to make room for 15 U.S. Army Air Corps personnel flying to California. Lombard insisted that because of her War Bonds effort, she too was essential, and convinced the station agent to let her group re-board the flight. Other passengers were removed instead.
After a brief refueling stop at what is now Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, for its final leg to Burbank. Fifteen minutes later, flying nearly seven miles off course, it crashed into a near vertical cliff on Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountain Range at 7,770 ft, about 80 ft below the top of the cliff and 730 ft below the summit, killing all on board.
All nineteen passengers on board, including movie star Carole Lombard and her mother, and all three crew members, died in the crash.
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) investigated the accident and determined it was caused by a navigation error by the captain.
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Hope you have a great flight! ... don´t crash!
Cheers
MAX-theHitman
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All Skins available from our great friends at Mission4Today…
http://mission4today.com/index.php?name ... ads2&c=199
- put skins in C47 folder -
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