As investigators recover victims in the wreckage of an American Airlines regional jet and a U. A Transcontinental and Western airliner carrying 15 people β 12 passengers and three crew members β hit a tree and house at S.
Kilbourn Ave. All 15 survived. A United Airlines DC-3 laden with ice on its windshield and wings stalled and crashed into a house at S.
Keating Ave. The crash caused the Civil Aeronautics Board to recommend that stall-warning devices be installed on airplanes to let pilots know when they are going too slow to stay aloft and to urge research into ways to reduce icing.
Twelve of 13 people on board died. A Braniff Airways twin-engine Convair trying to land at Midway Airport in fog struck a foot-tall gas station sign at the northwest corner of the airport and crashed, killing 22 and injuring The crash was one of several accidents that prompted the city and federal governments to restrict obstructions and the height of buildings near airports.
George A. Stone, the pilot of a Stratocruiser, was credited when all 68 people survived a crash landing in the same area as the Braniff accident. A loose bolt caused one-third of the tail section of a TWA Constellation plane to fall away minutes after takeoff from Midway airport and crash into a farm field near west suburban Clarendon Hills.
