Los Angeles – Santa Maria – San Luis Obispo – San Francisco

On August 24, 1984 at 11:18 AM, Los Angeles – Santa Maria – San Luis Obispo – San Francisco experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 99 Airliner, operated by Wings West Airlines, with the event recorded near San Luis Obispo California.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a plain, valley crash site.

15 people were known to be on board, 15 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 13, passenger fatalities: 13, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Wings West Airlines Flight 628, a commuter flight, departed Los Angeles for San Francisco, with scheduled en route stops at Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo. At 11:10, Flight 628 left the gate at San Luis Obispo. The weather at the time was essentially clear and the visibility was 15 miles. At 11:16, after taking off from runway 29, Flight 628 called the Los Angeles ARTCC and reported that it was climbing through 2,700 feet 'IFR to San Francisco.' At 11:17:23, the Los Angeles ARTCC’s radar controller cleared Flight 628 to the San Francisco airport, as filed, to climb and maintain 7,000 feet. At 11:17:38 the aircraft collided head-on with Rockwell Commander N112SM at 3,400 feet. This single-engined aircraft had departed Paso Robles Airport on a training flight with two pilots on board. Nll2SM was flying in visual meteorological conditions and under VFR in the vicinity of the San Luis Obispo Airport just before the collision.

Aircraft reference details include registration N6399U, MSN U-187, year of manufacture 1982.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 35.3540°, -120.3757°.