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The crash occurred at approximately 6:40 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on March 25, 1937, killing all 13 passengers and crew members. [1] Flight 15A was a regularly scheduled flight from Newark, New Jersey to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania via Camden, New Jersey .
The crash site, near the Aliquippa exit of I-376, is located on private property. The road to the site is accessible only to 427 Support League and Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust members. [ 25 ] Three tombstones are located at the Sewickley Cemetery, 10 miles (16 km) from the site of the crash and within the flight path of USAir 427.
On April 1, 1956, a Martin 4-0-4, registration #N40403, operating as TWA Flight 400, crashed on takeoff from Greater Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT). Twenty-two of the 36 people aboard the aircraft, including one crewmember, [1] perished in the evening crash on Easter Sunday.
This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list's size criteria—passenger aircraft with a seating capacity of at least 10 passengers, or commercial cargo aircraft of at least 20,000 lb (9,100 kg).
The Martinsburg Journal reported the next day that "local officials were alerted because the last word from the plane had been its routine report to Washington that it had passed just south of Martinsburg at an altitude of 5,000 feet with Washington only 20 minutes flying time away." The newspaper reported the wreckage was discovered by James ...
Commonwealth Commuter Flight 317 was a scheduled commuter flight from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, operated by Air East.On January 6, 1974, while on approach to Johnstown–Cambria County Airport, the Beechcraft Model 99A operating the flight crashed short of the runway after it failed to maintain flying speed and made a premature descent below the safe approach slope ...
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Wearing only a light uniform, she followed the wires 4 miles (6.4 km) to a farmhouse, where she telephoned the TWA office in Pittsburgh to notify them of the crash. [7] [11] [12] In Pittsburgh, Flight 21, which had been ahead of Flight 1, arrived at 10:33 without incident. [7]