Wreckage of N4819C, the Convair CV-440 involved in the crash
Accident
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″N118°21′43″W / 37.33250°N 118.36194°W / 37.33250; -118.36194
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
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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