- Date
- October 6, 1989
- Place
- Missing
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N6773CBeech 36TC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 41130
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Probable cause
Undetermined until the airplane is located.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Missing aircraft
Reason for occurrence undetermined
Analysis
During a cross country flight the airplane did not arrive at its destination. An aerial search was conducted along the route of flight. The airplane was not located and the search was suspended. To this date, the airplane is Missing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6773C
- Reported as
- Beech 36TC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- EA-396
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-UB, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dee M. Mclemore
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- S21 · Bend, OR
- Destination
- RNO · Reno, NV
- Flight plan
- VFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 68
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 9,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- RNO