American Airlines Flight 2207
Douglas C-50A · Unexplained fuel starvation, CFIT
From Buffalo, New York to Chicago, Illinois
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 21
- Survivors
- 19
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 19
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Douglas C-50A
- Aircraft type
- Douglas C-50
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- NC15577
- Operator
- American Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Buffalo, New YorkTo Chicago, Illinois
Approximate · Estimated position: Michigan City, Indiana, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The crash of American Airlines Flight 2207 was an accident involving a Douglas C-50A of the US airline American Airlines near Michigan City, Indiana, United States, on December 28, 1946, killing both pilots while the other crew member and 18 passengers survived with various injuries.
Accident
Having originated in Buffalo, New York, United States, Flight 2207 took off from an undefined airport in Detroit, Michigan, United States on a scheduled flight to Chicago, Illinois, United States carrying 3 crew and 18 passengers, including Captain Frank Mapes Ham Jr. and First Officer Harman Edwin Ring on December 28, 1946, at 07:48, which was six minutes behind the scheduled takeoff time. At 08:40, Chicago ATC instructed the flight to climb to an altitude of 4000 ft, which it was ordered to maintain until the flight was 10 minutes past South Bend, Indiana.
However at 09:18 the pilots reported to Air traffic control that both engines had shut down and the aircraft had descended to an altitude of 900 ft. Air traffic control at Chicago suggested that the flight should return to land at South Bend, but the pilots opted to try an emergency landing at Michigan City, Indiana instead. Unfortunately the aircraft had lost too much altitude to safely make it to the runway and crashed near Michigan City at 09:19. Both pilots were killed in the crash while the remaining crew member as well as all 18 passengers survived the crash with various injuries.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: American Airlines Flight 2207
- Revision
- 1339307512 · 2026-02-19 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q115805193
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "American Airlines Flight 2207" (page 72298646, revision 1339307512)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.