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| Date: | Saturday 27 December 1969 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Cessna 177 Cardinal |
| Owner/operator: | Aviation Unlim |
| Registration: | N29500 |
| MSN: | 17700929 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Lake Tahoe, CA -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Sacramento, CA |
| So.Lake Tahoe, CA | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
recovery date 6/7/70. Mntns obscured by clouds.Flew into mntn side.
Pilot Selwyn Jerome ("Jerry") Weiss of Fullerton, CA and Sandra G. Holland his passenger departed Sacramento about 1:00PM. Contacted Tahoe Airport at 2:24PM "on top of cloud cover at 11,500 encountering severe turbulence". Then reported that he was in the couds and did not how to get down through them, also said he did not know his position. -Source: The Sacramento Bee; Sunday edition 12/28/1969
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
The Sacramento Bee Newspaper. 12/28/1969
Images:
At crash site, 9/18/2010 My camera.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Oct-2010 02:34 | sgraehl | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 31-May-2012 22:21 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
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