Cleveland – Chicago

On December 23, 1926 at 12:00 AM, Cleveland – Chicago experienced a crash involving Douglas M-3, operated by U.S. Air Mail Service, with the event recorded near Bowling Green Ohio.

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. En route from Cleveland to Chicago, the pilot encountered icing conditions and decided to abandon the airplane and to bail out. The aircraft crashed in a field and was destroyed while the pilot was uninjured.

Aircraft reference details include registration 622.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 41.3748°, -83.6513°.