Rock Springs – Salt Lake City

On January 4, 1923 at 12:00 AM, Rock Springs – Salt Lake City experienced a crash involving De Havilland DH.4, operated by U.S. Air Mail Service, with the event recorded near Mt Wasatch Utah.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a mountains 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 Rock Springs to Salt Lake City, weather conditions worsened with the presence of a storm. The pilot decided to fly over and increased his altitude till 18,000 feet when the engine lost power. The airplane entered a dive and crashed on the slope of a mountain located in the Wasatch Mountain Range. The pilot was injured and able to reach the nearest village by his own.

Aircraft reference details include registration 247.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 40.6628°, -110.9109°.