| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | February 26, 1928 |
| Time: | ? |
| Location: | Marquette, Nebraska |
| Operator: | Boeing Air Transport |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | ? |
| AC Type: | Boeing 40 |
| Registration: | NC280 |
| cn / ln: | 891 |
| Aboard: | 2 (passengers:1 crew:1) |
| Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The air mail plane crashed into a grove of cottonwood trees and burned. Businessman F.H. Craig was killed and pilot Frank Yegar injured. The pilot descended in altitude due to air pockets.The plane then ran into an air pocket that brought the plane down into the grove of trees. |
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