American Airlines Flight 1 (1941)
NC25663, the aircraft involved in the accident | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | October 30, 1941 |
| Summary | Unknown |
| Site | Lawrence Station, Southwold, Ontario, Canada 42°45′45″N 81°24′20″W / 42.762516°N 81.405637°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-3-277B |
| Aircraft name | Flagship Erie |
| Operator | American Airlines |
| Registration | NC25663 |
| Flight origin | New York City |
| 1st stopover | Newark, New Jersey |
| 2nd stopover | Buffalo, New York |
| 3rd stopover | Detroit, Michigan |
| Last stopover | South Bend, Indiana |
| Destination | Chicago, Illinois |
| Occupants | 20 |
| Passengers | 17 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 20 |
| Survivors | 0 |
American Airlines Flight 1, dubbed "the New Yorker", was a regularly scheduled passenger flight. On October 30, 1941, when the route was a multiple stop flight from La Guardia Airport to Chicago Municipal Airport with intermediate stops at Newark, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and South Bend, Indiana, on the flight's leg between Buffalo and Detroit, the American Airlines Douglas DC-3-277B operating the route crashed into a wheat field approximately one half mile east of the town of Lawrence Station, Ontario, southwest of London. All aboard, including 17 passengers and 3 crew, were killed. It was the second of three fatal crashes during an operation of American Airlines Flight 1.