On November 29, 1949, American Airlines Flight 157 carrying 46 passengers and crew
from New York to Mexico City crashed at Love Field, Dallas. The flight crew of the Douglas DC-6 lost one engine in mid-flight and lost control during its approach to Love Field. The plane slid off the runway crashing into several buildings. 26 passengers and two flight attendants died. The pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and 15 passengers survived.
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A Douglas DC-6 similar to the one involved in the Dallas crash |
The post card shown below was on board Flight 157.
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Niagara Falls to Mexico City, November 28, 1949
10 cents air mail rate to Mexico
Shortpaid and taxed 24 centimes |
Spanish Label
A label written in Spanish was affixed advising that the correspondence was found in this state in the wreckage of the air plane crash in Dallas, on November 29,1949.