Accident Investigation Report: American Airlines Flight 6780, Elizabeth, New Jersey, January 22, 1952
Civil Aeronautics Board report SA-253, twelve pages, adopted April 25, 1952, on the crash of a Convair 240 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, that killed all twenty-three aboard and seven people on the ground.
Flight 6780 was a Convair 240 flying from Buffalo to Newark under instrument flight rules, with stops planned at Rochester and Syracuse and Albany and Windsor Locks named as alternates. The Civil Aeronautics Board's report records that the airplane left the Buffalo ramp at 1203 and was off the ground at 1214. Its gross weight was under the allowable figure and its centre of gravity within limits. It held its planned 5,000 feet without incident.
On January 22, 1952, at about 1543, it crashed in the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. All twenty passengers and the three crew were killed, and seven people in the buildings the airplane struck were fatally injured. The board adopted the report on April 25 and released it three days later.
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