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Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802
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), and it stands as the fourth-deadliest crash of a Convair CV-440 to date. Background Aircraft The aircraft involved in the crash was a Convair 340/440-38, registered as N4189C. It was purchased by Sierra Pacific Airlines from Aspen Airways on November 11, 1973. Its first flight was in 1953 and it had accrued 41,112 flight hours prior to the accident flight. Its last major inspection was on January 31, 1974. The plane was fitted with two Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engines. The plane did not have a flight data recorder (FDR) nor a cockpit voice recorder ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Controlled Flight Into Terrain
In aviation, a controlled flight into terrain (CFIT; usually ) is an aviation accidents and incidents, accident in which an airworthy aircraft, fully under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a body of water or other obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the aircrew, crew is unaware of the impending collision until impact, or it is too late to avert. The term was coined by engineers at Boeing in the late 1970s. Accidents where the aircraft is out of control at the time of impact, because of mechanical failure or pilot error, are classified instead as uncontrolled flight into terrain, or UFIT. Incidents resulting from the deliberate action of the person at the controls, such as a forced landing, an act of terrorism, or suicide by pilot, are also excluded from the definition of CFIT. According to Boeing in 1997, CFIT was a leading cause of airplane accidents involving the loss of life, causing over 9,000 deaths since the beginning of the commercial jet aircra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area is a ski resort in eastern California, located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada mountain range within the Inyo National Forest. The resort is located in the town of Mammoth Lakes, California. The resort covers 3,500 acres (1,420 ha) of skiable terrain, with a vertical drop of 3,100 feet (940 m) and a summit elevation of 11,059 feet (3,371 m). It receives an average of 400 inches (1,020 cm) of snowfall annually and typically offers a ski season from November until May, with some seasons extending into the summer months. Mammoth Mountain, established by Dave McCoy in the 1940s, developed from a small ski area into a major resort after receiving a United States Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service permit in 1953 and constructing its first ski lift in 1955. Intrawest, Intrawest Corporation acquired a stake in the 1990s, leading to real estate development, including The Village at Mammoth. In 2005, McCoy sold his majority stake to Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 1974
The following events occurred in March 1974: March 1, 1974 (Friday) *Seven former high-ranking aides to U.S. President Richard M. Nixon were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington. The grand jury declined to name any persons believed to be connected, but not indicted, issuing the list as a secret report for a federal judge's consideration, but in June, President Nixon himself would be identified as one of the persons who had been named by the grand jury on March 1 as an unindicted co-conspirator. The former White House staffers charged with conspiracy to violate election laws were United States Attorney General, U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell; White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman; domestic affairs advisor John Ehrlichman; White House counsel Charles Colson; and aides Gordon C. Strachan, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson. Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Colson would serve prison sentences ranging from seven to 19 months. *Endalkachew Makonnen took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
