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- TWA_Flight_1 abstract "Transcontinental and Western Airways Flight 1 (TWA 1), a Douglas DC-2, crashed into Cheat Mountain, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, approximately 10:20 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on April 7, 1936, killing 12 of the 14 passengers and crew aboard. Flight 1 was a regularly scheduled TWA Sun Racer flight from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles, California with almost a dozen intermediate stops between. Approaching the flight's second stop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Allegheny County Airport, pilot Otto Ferguson lost contact with the airport's radio navigation signal, and tracked several miles in a southwestern line off course. Fearing icing conditions, he descended in an attempt to find visual landmarks for navigation. Thick fog hindered him, and his descent continued until Flight 1 hit ice-covered trees atop Cheat Mountain, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Pittsburgh on the West Virginia line and near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. When the plane crashed it was aiming in a northern flight direction indicating that the pilot finally realized he had tracked south of his flightplan and may have been trying to correct it (the flight should have been aimed due west not north or hours prior south-southwest).The plane's two pilots were killed instantly, as were several passengers. Flight attendant Nellie Granger, though injured in the crash, got help for the surviving passengers by following nearby telephone wires to a home, where she called for help. Though two of the survivors later died of their injuries, Granger was hailed as a hero for her efforts to help them despite her own injuries.".
- TWA_Flight_1 thumbnail DC-2_CN1368.jpg?width=300.
- TWA_Flight_1 wikiPageID "31530835".
- TWA_Flight_1 wikiPageRevisionID "603107582".
- TWA_Flight_1 aircraftType Douglas_DC-2.
- TWA_Flight_1 caption "A restored DC-2 is seen with TWA markings".
- TWA_Flight_1 crew "3".
- TWA_Flight_1 date "1936-04-07".
- TWA_Flight_1 destination Los_Angeles.
- TWA_Flight_1 fatalities "12".
- TWA_Flight_1 hasPhotoCollection TWA_Flight_1.
- TWA_Flight_1 name "TWA Flight 1".
- TWA_Flight_1 occurrenceType "Accident".
- TWA_Flight_1 operator Trans_World_Airlines.
- TWA_Flight_1 origin Newark,_New_Jersey.
- TWA_Flight_1 passengers "11".
- TWA_Flight_1 site "Cheat Mountain, Wharton Township, Fayette County, near".
- TWA_Flight_1 site "Uniontown, Pennsylvania".
- TWA_Flight_1 stopover "Camden, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Columbus, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, Indianapolis, Indiana, St. Louis, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, Topeka, Kansas, Amarillo, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico".
- TWA_Flight_1 survivors "2".
- TWA_Flight_1 tailNumber "NC-13721".
- TWA_Flight_1 type "Pilot error".
- TWA_Flight_1 subject Category:1936_in_Pennsylvania.
- TWA_Flight_1 subject Category:Airliner_accidents_and_incidents_in_Pennsylvania.
- TWA_Flight_1 subject Category:Aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_1936.
- TWA_Flight_1 subject Category:Fayette_County,_Pennsylvania.
- TWA_Flight_1 subject Category:Trans_World_Airlines_accidents_and_incidents.
- TWA_Flight_1 point "39.786944444444444 -79.69472222222223".
- TWA_Flight_1 type SpatialThing.
- TWA_Flight_1 comment "Transcontinental and Western Airways Flight 1 (TWA 1), a Douglas DC-2, crashed into Cheat Mountain, near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, approximately 10:20 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on April 7, 1936, killing 12 of the 14 passengers and crew aboard. Flight 1 was a regularly scheduled TWA Sun Racer flight from Newark, New Jersey to Los Angeles, California with almost a dozen intermediate stops between.".
- TWA_Flight_1 label "TWA Flight 1".
- TWA_Flight_1 sameAs m.0glpwf7.
- TWA_Flight_1 sameAs Q7672507.
- TWA_Flight_1 sameAs Q7672507.
- TWA_Flight_1 lat "39.786944444444444".
- TWA_Flight_1 long "-79.69472222222223".
- TWA_Flight_1 wasDerivedFrom TWA_Flight_1?oldid=603107582.
- TWA_Flight_1 depiction DC-2_CN1368.jpg.
- TWA_Flight_1 isPrimaryTopicOf TWA_Flight_1.
