San Francisco – Burbank - New York

On November 4, 1944 at 05:30 PM, San Francisco – Burbank - New York experienced a crash involving Douglas DC-3, operated by Transcontinental %26 Western Air - TWA, with the event recorded near Hanford California.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

24 people were known to be on board, 24 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 21, passenger fatalities: 21, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. Flight 8 took off at 1600 and proceeded according to plan to a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet for Burbank on an instrument clearance. It reported over Fresno on schedule cruising at 10,000 feet and estimated Bakersfield at 1735. At 1712 the crew was last contacted by the company and given a routine message which was acknowledged. Thereafter, at intervals of a few minutes, numerous unsuccessful attempts were made to contact the flight. At no time did the captain report any difficulty with the airplane or comment on the weather. While cruising in poor weather conditions (thunderstorm and severe turbulence), the aircraft went out of control, got inverted and dove into the ground prior to crash in a field. All 24 occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration NC28310, MSN 4992, year of manufacture 1942.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 36.3278°, -119.6462°.