Aviation Accident Report: Eastern Air Lines Flight 14/Appendix C

by Civil Aeronautics Board

APPENDIX C-- Report on Accident to Eastern Air Lines Aircraft NC 21727 near Vero Beach, Florida, on April 3, 1941

 

The 6:35 A. M., 7:35 A. M., 8:35 A. M., and 9:35 A. M. Weather Sequence from Miami to Jacksonville, Florida, on April 3, 1941

 

 

6:35 A.M. Sequence:
MIAMI, Class C. Weather 0635 E	High broken clouds, lower scattered clouds at 5000 feet, sea-level pressure 1010.8 millibars, temperature 75, dew point 67, wind southeast 16 miles per hour, altimeter setting 29.85
WEST PALM BEACH 0635 E	Ceiling estimated 5000 feet, upper and lower broken clouds, pressure 1011.2 millibars, temperature 73, dew point 64, wind southeast 13, altimeter setting 29.85.
VERO BEACH 0635 E	Ceiling estimated 8000 feet, overcast, pressure 1011.2 millibars, temperature 70, dew point 62. Wind direction missing, velocity 13 miles per hour, altimeter setting 29.85.
MELBOURNE 0635 E	Ceiling estimated 6500 feet, overcast, visibility 8 miles, pressure 1010.8 millibars. Temperature 69, dew point 63, wind east 14, altimeter setting 29.84.
ORLANDO 0635 E	Ceiling estimated 900 feet, overcast, lower broken, visibility 2 miles, mild thunderstorm, moderate rain, light fog. Temperature 63, dew point 59, wind east southeast 9. Remarks: Lightning all quadrants.
DAYTONA BEACH	Ceiling estimated 5000 feet, overcast, visibility 8 miles, light rain, pressure 1012.5 millibars. Temperature 64, dew point 61, wind southwest 4, altimeter setting 29.89.
JACKSONVILLE 0635 E	Ceiling unlimited, high overcast, visibility 10 miles or better, pressure 1010.8 millibars. Temperature 62, dew point 55, wind southeast 8, altimeter setting 29.84.
7:35 A. M. Sequence:
MIAMI, Class C Weather 0735 E	Ceiling 1600 feet, high broken clouds, lower broken clouds, visibility 8 miles, pressure 1011.2 millibars. Temperature 74, dew point 68, wind east southeast 10, altimeter setting 29.85.
WEST PALM BEACH 0735 E	Ceiling estimated 5000 feet, overcast, pressure 1011.5 millibars. Temperature 74, dew point 63, wind southeast 15, altimeter setting 29.86. Pressure tendency falling then rising. 0.4 millibars in the last three hours. Stratocumulus clouds moving from the southeast.
VERO BEACH 0735 E	Ceiling estimated 6500 feet, high overcast, lower broken, pressure 1010.8 millibars, temperature 71, dew point 63, wind southeast 14, altimeter setting 29.84, pressure tendency falling unsteadily 0.4 millibars.
MELBOURNE 0735 E	Ceiling estimated 2000 feet, overcast, lower broken, visibility 6 miles light rain, pressure 1012.9 millibars. Temperature 68, dew point 63, wind northeast 9, altimeter setting 29.90. Base of overcast at 5000.
ORLANDO 0735 E	Ceiling estimated 800 feet, overcast, lower broken clouds, visibility 2 miles, mild thunderstorm, light rain, light fog. Temperature 61, dew point 60, wind east 12, estimated 1500 feet overcast. Low broken clouds, altostratus clouds moving from the east.
DAYTONA BEACH 0735 E	Ceiling estimated 4000 feet, overcast, visibility 7 miles, mild thunderstorm, light rain, pressure 1013.7 millibars. Temperature 63, dew point 61, wind south-southwest 5, altimeter setting 29.93. Cumulonimbus clouds, altostratus moving from the northwest.
JACKSONVILLE 0735 E	Ceiling unlimited, high overcast, visibility 10 miles or better, pressure 1011.9 millibars. Temperature 62, dew point 57, wind east 9, altimeter setting 29.87.
8:35 A. M. Sequence:
MIAMI 8:35 A.M. EST	Classification Contact, special, ceiling estimated 16 hundred feet, high overcast, lower broken clouds, visibility 5 miles, hazy, pressure 1011.2 millibars, temperature 75, dew point 69, wind southeast 15, altimeter setting 29.85.
WEST PALM BEACH 8:35 A.M. EST	Special, ceiling estimated 5 thousand feet, overcast, visibility 8 miles, mild thunderstorm, pressure 1011.5 millibars, temperature 74, dew point 62, wind southeast 15, altimeter setting 29.86, remarks showery conditions.
VERO BEACH 8:35 A.M. EST	Special, ceiling estimated 2 thousand feet, high overcast, lower broken clouds, visibility 7 miles, mild thunderstorm, light rain, pressure 1008.5, temperature 69, dew point 64, wind east-southeast 26, altimeter setting 29.77, remarks thunderstorm centered west to northwest.
MELBOURNE 8:35 A.M. EST	Ceiling estimated 8 hundred feet, overcast, lower broken clouds, visibility 1 mile, moderate thunderstorm, moderate rain, pressure 1015.2 millibars, temperature 61, dew point 59, wind southeast 3, altimeter setting 29.97, remarks thunderstorm overhead brightening west.
ORLANDO 8:35 A.M. EST	Ceiling estimated 6 hundred feet, overcast, visibility 3 miles, light rain, temperature 60, dew point 59, wind east-northeast 5.
DAYTONA BEACH 8:35 A.M. EST	Ceiling estimated 3 thousand feet, overcast, scattered clouds at 15 hundred feet, visibility 6 miles, mild thunderstorm, light rain, pressure 1014.2 millibars, temperature 63, dew point 61, wind southeast 5, altimeter setting 29.94.
JACKSONVILLE 8:35 A.M. EST	Classification Contact. Ceiling estimated 7 thousand feet, overcast, scattered clouds at 3 hundred, visibility 4 miles, light rain, pressure 1012.2 millibars, temperature 62, dew point 59, wind southeast 6, altimeter setting 29.88.
9:35 A. M. Sequence:
MIAMI 9:35 A.M. EST	Classification Contact. Ceiling estimated 16 hundred feet, high broken clouds, lower broken clouds, visibility 6 miles, hazy, pressure 1011.5 millibars, temperature 78, dew point 71, wind southeast 19, altimeter setting 29.86.
WEST PALM BEACH 9:35 A.M. EST	Ceiling estimated 6 thousand feet, overcast, visibility miles pressure 1010.8 millibars, temperature 75, dew point 66, wind southeast 16, altimeter setting 29.84.
VERO BEACH 9:35 A.M. EST	Special, ceiling estimated 6 hundred feet, overcast, visibility 1 mile, mild thunderstorm, moderate rain, pressure 1012.9 millibars, temperature 62, dew point 62, wind east-northeast 12, altimeter setting 29.90, remarks thunderstorm moving southwestward.
MELBOURNE 9:35 A.M. EST	Special, ceiling-estimated 25 hundred feet, overcast, scattered clouds at 1 thousand feet, visibility 3 miles, mild thunderstorm, light rain, pressure 1013.5 millibars, temperature 63, dew point 60, wind east-northeast 18, altimeter setting 29.92 remarks thunderstorm centered west.
ORLANDO 9:35 A.M. EST	Ceiling estimated 6 hundred feet, overcast, visibility 5 miles, light rain temperature 59, dew point 59, wind east 9, remarks occasional mild thunderstorm.
DAYTONA BEACH 9:35 A.M. EST	Special, ceiling estimated 12 hundred, overcast, lower broken clouds, visibility 4 miles, light rain, pressure 1012.5 millibars, temperature 60, dew point 59, wind southeast 18, altimeter setting 29.89.
JACKSONVILLE 9:35 A.M. EST	Classification Contact, ceiling estimated 7 thousand feet, overcast, thin scattered clouds at 3 hundred feet, visibility 4 miles, light rain, pressure 1013.5 millibars, temperature 62, dew point 59, wind south 14, altimeter setting 29.92.