Hazlehurst – Cleveland

On September 1, 1920 at 12:00 AM, Hazlehurst – Cleveland experienced a crash involving Junkers-Larsen JL-6 (Junkers F.13), operated by U.S. Air Mail Service, with the event recorded near Morristown New Jersey.

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

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The crew was performing a mail flight from Hazlehurst to Cleveland. En route, the aircraft caught fire, went out of control and crashed near Morristown. Both crew members, the pilot Max Miller and the mechanic Gustav Heierson were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 305, year of manufacture 1920.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 40.7970°, -74.4810°.