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Beechcraft Bonanza 35 Dwyer Flying Service, N3794N Clear Lake, Iowa February 3, 1959 - Federal Aviation Administration; February 3, 1959 front page of the Mason City Globe-Gazette, via Newspapers.com; fiftiesweb.com The Day the Music Died; Bakotopia Magazine's 50th Anniversary memorial article; 1959: Buddy Holly killed in air crash
13 March – American television personality Peter Tomarken and his wife are killed when the engine of the Beechcraft Bonanza A36 Tomarken is piloting fails due to improper maintenance just after takeoff from Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California, and the plane crashes 200 yards (180 meters) offshore in Santa Monica Bay as Tomarken ...
Tomarken—a private pilot—and his second wife, Kathleen (born June 12, 1964), were killed when his Beechcraft Bonanza A36, N16JR, crashed a few hundred feet offshore in Santa Monica Bay during climb-out from the Santa Monica Airport in California on the morning of March 13, 2006. [5]
The Beechcraft Bonanza is an American general aviation aircraft introduced in 1947 by Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas.The six-seater, single-engined aircraft is still produced by Beechcraft and has been in continuous production longer than any other aircraft in history.
The crash results in 19 deaths out of 21 passengers. [61] It was the deadliest ballooning disaster in history, surpassing the 1989 Alice Springs hot air balloon crash in Australia. [62] [63] June 29 - An in-air collision between a glider and a Cessna 150 killed four people and a dog near Whistler, B.C. [64]
Piper accident at Buchanan Field that killed three adults and a child – December 21, 2006. On October 25, 2016, shortly after departing Buchanan Field, a Beechcraft Bonanza registered as N364RM crashed into a hill near Kirker Pass Road in Concord. The two occupants, both pilots, were killed in the crash. No one on the ground was injured.
Beechcraft Bonanza: Clear Lake, Iowa, United States Controlled flight into terrain; see The Day the Music Died: Bar-Kays, Otis Redding: United States 1967 Four of six Bar-Kays members died: Ronnie Caldwell, Phalon Jones, Jimmy King and Carl Cunningham. Ben Cauley survived the crash and James Alexander was not on the plane.
1 March – Asiana Airlines joins the Star Alliance. 6 March – Air Algérie Flight 6289, the Boeing 737-200 7T-VEZ, suffers an engine failure during takeoff from Tamanrasset Airport in Tamanrasset, Algeria, stalls, veers off the runway, and crashes, killing all but 1 of the 103 people on board and injuring the sole survivor.