Beechcraft E18S N342E

20 February 1976 · Bahia de L.a., Mexico · No injuries

Summary

On 20 February 1976 at about 12:50 local time, a Beechcraft E18S registered N342E, operated by Baja Airlines, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Bahia de L.a., Mexico. 9 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 20 February 1976 at 12:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Bahia de L.a., Mexico
Nearest airport: Bahia de Los Ange
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft E18S
Registration: N342E
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Baja Airlines
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Mexicali, Mex → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0002

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
9	0	0	0	9

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.

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INVEST UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF MEXICO.

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 6-0002, 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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