- Date
- March 16, 1969
- Place
- Bishop, CA · BISHOP, CA
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N104XBeech 35
- Status
- Completed · report June 23, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 188863
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1040 69/3/16 BISHOP,CALIF BEECH 35 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 41, 971 TIME - 1530 N104X PX- 0 2 0 SEARCH AND RESCUE TOTAL HOURS, 280 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION TURBULENCE IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS WEATHER BRIEFING - OTHER WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS NONE VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR REMARKS- WX BRIEFING GIVEN BY CAP PERSONNEL,PLT ENCOUNTERED A FORMING SIERRA WAVE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N104X
- Reported as
- Beech 35
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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