LAX86FA160 · Beech C35
Beech C35 · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From LHU · LAE HAVASU CITY, AZ to Upland-Cable Airport (CCB)
Event
- NTSB case
- LAX86FA160
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beech C35
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 35
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N717D
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From LHU · LAE HAVASU CITY, AZTo Upland-Cable Airport (CCB), Upland, CA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · descent
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight encounter with weather
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › VFR flight into imc, continued
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE FLT WAS RECEIVING RADAR ADVISORIES & WAS ROUTINE UNTIL THE ACFT WAS APRX 15 MI EAST OF THE DESTINATION ARPT. AFTER RADAR SVC WAS TERMINATED, THE ACFT SUBSEQUENTLY TURNED TOWARD THE NORTHWEST & FLEW INTO RISING TERRAIN AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 3000 FEET. THE ACFT WAS REPORTED MISSING, BUT WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL 4/1/86. THE CRASH SITE WAS LOCATED ABOUT 10 MI NORTHEAST OF THE ARPT. DARKNESS & MARGINAL WX EXISTED AT THE CRASH SITE AT THE TIME OF THE ACDNT. APRX 18 MI SOUTH AT ONTARIO, CA, THE 1945 WX WAS, IN PART: SKY PARTIALLY OBSCURED, 1300 BROKEN, 5000 OVERCAST, VISIBILITY 4 MI WITH HAZE, WIND FROM 270 DEG AT 10 KTS. THE ELEVATION AT ONTARIO WAS 952 FT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record LAX86FA160
- Event ID
- 20001213X33082
- Case number
- LAX86FA160
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1986-03-29.
- API snapshot SHA-256: eed71c46f1ed538c9d622d3af2a9bd8417e98f221462a79ed2c79202fd6bd6f9; retrieved 2026-09-21T04:37:36.573Z.