CONDUCT OF INVESTIGATION
A collision accident involving aircraft NC 25667 and NC 1941 occurred at the Wichita Municipal Airport at Wichita, Kansas, on June 1, 1941, about 2:25 a.m. (CST).[1] At the time of the accident NC 25667 was operating in scheduled air carrier service between Brownsville, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, as Flight 2 of Braniff Airways, Inc.[2] NC 1941 was operating in scheduled air carrier service between Los Angeles, California, and New York, New York, as Flight 6 of Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc.[3] The accident resulted in major damage to both aircraft. None of the 15 passengers and three crew members of NC 25667 was injured, nor were any injuries received by any of the 15 passengers and four crew members aboard NC 1941.
Inspection and Preservation of the Wreckage
The Kansas City office of the Civil Aeronautics Board[4] received notification of the accident at approximately 3:50 a.m. Upon receipt of this notification, the Board immediately initiated an investigation of the accident in accordance with the provisions of Section 702(a)(2) of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, and sent an investigator to the scene of the accident. The investigator arrived there about 11:30 a.m., June 1, 1941. The airplanes involved had been taxied from the scene of the accident to a hangar on the airport, but had not otherwise been disturbed.
