American Airways Flight 1 (1936)
American Airways Flight 1 was a Douglas DC-2 airliner on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Memphis to Little Rock. On Tuesday, January 14, 1936, the flight crashed into a swamp near Goodwin, Arkansas, disintegrating on impact and killing all 17 people on board. "With great difficulty the bodies of the victims were brought out of the marsh where their bodies were found scattered among fragments of the shattered plane."[1] At the time, it was the worst civil plane crash on U.S. soil.[2][3] As of 2016, it remains the deadliest crash in Arkansas state history.
 A Douglas DC-2 similar to the accident aircraft | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | January 14, 1936 |
| Summary | Undetermined, probable fuel starvation |
| Site | Near Goodwin, Arkansas, United States 34°56′17″N 91°01′15″W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Douglas DC-2-120 |
| Operator | American Airways |
| Registration | NC14274 |
| Flight origin | Memphis Municipal Airport, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Destination | Little Rock National Airport, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Passengers | 14 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 17 |
| Survivors | 0 |
References
- Pickard, Edward W., "Seventeen Persons Die in Airplane Crash", Current Events in Review, Western Newspaper Union, The Perkins Journal, Perkins, Payne County, Oklahoma, Thursday 30 January 1936, Volume XLVI, Number 17, page 2.
- "Aviation Safety Network".
- "Plane Crash Info.com".
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