Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing crash, Sep 17, 1929 (1 killed), Mt...
Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing accident on September 17, 1929 near Mt Lamentation Connecticut, United States with 1 fatality. Cause: The aircraft flew too low...
- Date: September 17, 1929
- Aircraft: Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing
- Location: Mt Lamentation Connecticut, United States
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: The aircraft flew too low in fog and struck trees.
A Colonial Air Transport mail pilot was killed on 17 September 1929 when his Pitcairn mailwing flew into trees in fog on Mount Lamentation, northeast of Meriden, Connecticut, shortly after leaving Hartford.