American Airlines Flight 1 (1941)
American Airlines Flight 1, dubbed "the New Yorker", was a regularly scheduled, multiple stop flight from La Guardia Airport to Chicago Municipal Airport. It had intermediate stops at Newark, New Jersey; Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan; and South Bend, Indiana. On October 30, 1941, 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. All aboard, including 17 passengers and 3 crew, were killed.
The probable cause of the crash was not determined in the published Civil Aeronautics Board accident report.
