Cleveland – Buffalo

On March 22, 1933 at 05:27 AM, Cleveland – Buffalo experienced a crash involving Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing, operated by American Airways, with the event recorded near Conneaut Ohio.

The flight was categorized as cargo 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 technical failure. While on a night cargo flight from Cleveland to Buffalo, flying into snow falls, the airplane suffered an engine failure. The pilot bailed out and abandoned the aircraft that entered a dive and crashed in an open field located near the shore of Erie Lake. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot was uninjured.

Aircraft reference details include registration NC482E, MSN 24, year of manufacture 1929.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 41.9441°, -80.5561°.