- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: October 30, 1919
Time: ?
Location: Long Valley, New Jersey
Operator: US Aerial Mail Service
Flight #: ?
Route: ?
AC Type: De Havilland DH.4
Registration: 77
cn / ln: 77
Aboard: 1   (passengers:0  crew:1)
Fatalities: 1   (passengers:0  crew:1)
Ground: 0
Summary: While on a mail flight to New York the pilot encountered bad weather conditions and reduced his altitude to maintain a visual contact with the ground. Eventually, he decided to make an emergency landing in Long Valley, west of Newark. Aircraft hit the ground and crashed.
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