United Air Lines Flight 608
United Air Lines Flight 608 was a Douglas DC-6 airliner, registration NC37510, on a scheduled airline, passenger flight from Los Angeles to Chicago when it crashed at 12:29 pm on October 24, 1947 about southeast of Bryce Canyon Airport, Utah, United States.Accident Investigation Report, File No. 1-0097-47
None of the five crew members and 47 passengers on board survived. It was the first crash of a DC-6, and at the time, it was the second-deadliest aviation accident, air crash in the United States, surpassed by Eastern Air Lines Flight 605 by only one fatality.

Accident sequence

United Flight 608 departed from Los Angeles, California, at 10:23 am on a routine flight to Chicago, Illinois. At 12:21 pm, the airplane's pilot, Capta ...
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Douglas DC-6
The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range commercial transport market. More than 700 were built and many still fly in cargo, military, and wildfire control roles. The DC-6 was known as the C-118 Liftmaster in United States Air Force service and as the R6D in United States Navy service prior to 1962, after which all U.S. Navy variants were also designated as the C-118. Design and development The United States Army Air Forces commissioned the DC-6 project as the XC-112 in 1944. The Army Air Forces wanted a lengthened, pressurized version of the DC-4-based C-54 Skymaster transport with more powerful engines. By the time the prototype XC-112A flew on 15 February 1946, the war was over, the USAAF had rescinded its requirement, and the aircr ...
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