Beechcraft C50 N3693B

9 March 1978 · Mammoth Lakes, California, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 9 March 1978 at about 08:26 local time, a Beechcraft C50 registered N3693B, operated by Gibbs Lease AI, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Mammoth Lakes, California, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 9 March 1978 at 08:26
Classification: Accident
Location: Mammoth Lakes, California, United States
Nearest airport: Mammoth Lakes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft C50
Registration: N3693B
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Gibbs Lease AI
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Bishop, Ca → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0474

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	1	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

AIRPORT DOES NOT HAVE ANY ELECTRONIC LANDING AIDS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-0474, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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