- Date
- September 12, 1980
- Place
- Long Beach, CA · LONG BEACH, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N299YBeech 35
- Status
- Completed · report December 16, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800912041319A
- Case key
- 127883
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3258 80/9/12 LONG BEACH,CA BEECH 35 CR- 2 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 53, 2432 TIME - 1227 N299Y PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 1799 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LONG BEACH MUNI DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LONG BEACH,CA CAREFREE,AZ TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION AIRFRAME FAILURE: IN FLIGHT IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) AIRFRAME - WINGS: SPARS MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- THROW-OVR FLT CTLS FND IN UNLOCKED PSN,FULL AFT AND BENT 11DEG TO THE RT.PLT AT CTLS UNKN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N299Y
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Long Beach Muni
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.