Cleveland – Bay City

On February 18, 1930 at 12:00 AM, Cleveland – Bay City experienced a crash involving Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing, operated by Thompson Aeronautical Corporation, with the event recorded near Flint-Bishop Michigan.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

1 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 1 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. While cruising at an altitude of 1,000 feet in poor weather conditions (heavy snow falls), the engine failed. The pilot decided to bail out and abandoned the aircraft that entered a spin and crashed in a field located one mile northeast of Flint. The plane was wrecked but three pouches of mail were saved. The pilot Clifford William March was uninjured.

Aircraft reference details include registration NC129E, MSN 15, year of manufacture 1928.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 42.9935°, -83.7405°.