Douglas DC-6 N37503

10 December 1962 · Los Angeles, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 10 December 1962 at about 18:48 local time, a Douglas DC-6 registered N37503, operated by United Air Lines, Inc., was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Los Angeles, California, United States. 9 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 10 December 1962 at 18:48
Classification: Accident
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nearest airport: Los Angeles Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-6
Registration: N37503
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: United Air Lines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Reno, Nev → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 1-0063

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
9	0	0	0	9

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

RAISED GR INSTEAD OF FLAPS. PERSONNEL-FLT ENG INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GR.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 1-0063, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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