Marina - Sacramento

On January 14, 1921 at 12:00 AM, Marina - Sacramento experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.4, operated by U.S. Air Mail Service, with the event recorded near San Francisco California.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a city 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. En route from Marina to Sacramento, while flying at an altitude of 2,000 over San Francisco in foggy conditions, the engine failed. The pilot elected to make an emergency landing and reduced his altitude when the airplane collided with the trolley wires and crashed in Gough Street, bursting into flames. The pilot escaped uninjured and the aircraft was destroyed by a post crash fire.

Aircraft reference details include registration 153.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 37.7879°, -122.4075°.