Upper St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 40°19′48″N80°04′02″W / 40.33000°N 80.06722°W / 40.33000; -80.06722
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Douglas DC-2
Operator
Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA)
Registration
NC-13730
Flight origin
Camden, New Jersey
Destination
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Passengers
10
Crew
3
Fatalities
13
Survivors
0
TWA Flight 15A (TWA 15A), a Douglas DC-2 operated by Transcontinental and Western Air, crashed into a gully in Clifton, Pennsylvania, now Upper Saint Clair, a suburb approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of Pittsburgh. 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.
This accident marked the third fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the Pittsburgh area within a single year's time. On April 7, 1936 TWA Flight 1, also a DC-2, crashed into Cheat Mountain south-east of Pittsburgh near Uniontown with 12 fatalities. On September 5, 1936 a Stinson 6000 tri-motor operating under the name Skyways crashed near Pittsburgh's Allegheny County airport while on a sightseeing flight, killing 9 of 10 onboard, including the pilot.[2] Spared was the earliest known sole survivor of a commercial aviation accident.
^"ASN Aircraft Accident Douglas DC-2-112 NC13730". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
^"Nine Burn to Death as Plane Falls at City-County Airport". The Pittsburgh Press. September 6, 1936. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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