Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802
March 1974 plane crash near Bishop, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 was a charter flight from Bishop, California to Burbank, California that crashed into the White Mountains on the evening of March 13, 1974. The aircraft, carrying a movie production crew, crashed for undetermined reasons, killing all 36 occupants on board. To this day, the crash remains one of only three aviation accidents to be unsolved by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),[2] and it stands as the fourth-deadliest crash of a Convair CV-440 to date.[1]
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Accident | |
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Date | March 13, 1974 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain, cause undetermined[1] |
Site | 5.2 mi SE of Eastern Sierra Regional Airport (Bishop Airport), Inyo County, California, United States 37°19′57″N 118°21′43″W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Convair CV-440 Metropolitan |
Operator | Sierra Pacific Airlines |
Registration | N4819C |
Flight origin | Eastern Sierra Regional Airport, Inyo County, California |
Destination | Hollywood Burbank Airport, Burbank, California |
Occupants | 36 |
Passengers | 32 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 36 |
Survivors | 0 |
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