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| Accident description |
| Aviation Safety Network. "The aircraft was chartered by Wolper Productions Inc. to fly a movie production crew from Bishop (BIH) to Burbank (BUR). Flight 802 departed Hollywood-Burbank Airport at 18:14 to pick up the passengers at Bishop. ... After takeoff from runway 12 the flight made a climbing right turn, circled back over, or near, the BIH VOR and then proceeded outbound in an east-southeasterly direction. At 20:24 Flight 802 again contacted the Tonopah FSS and reported that they were off Bishop at 20:20 and were, 'climbing VFR over Bishop, awaiting clearance.' About four minutes later the aircraft struck a foothill in the White Mountain range at an elevation of 6100 feet. ..." |
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| The 'Primal Man' Crash |
| Check-Six.com. "... A series of television specials, entitled 'Primal Man', told the story of mankind's rise and development from the basic primate. ... The filming at the Mammoth Mountain resort begun on Monday, March 11th, and continued for two more days until Wednesday the 13th. ... To this day, this crash remains one of the only three aviation mishaps to be unsolved by the NTSB in its forty year history." |
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| The Creations of Janos Prohaska |
| Harpies Bizarre. "Janos Prohaska, the Hungarian born actor, creature costume designer and stuntman left an indelible impression on Bewitched viewers with his two portrayals of the imposing Macedonian Dodo Bird in ep # 118, 'Allergic to Macedonian Dodo Birds' and ep # 253, 'Samantha's Witchcraft Blows a Fuse'. ..." |
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| Wikipedia: Janos Prohaska |
| "Janos Prohaska (October 10, 1919, Budapest, Hungary - March 13, 1974) was a Hungarian United States based actor and stunt performer on American television from the 1960s. He usually played the roles of animals or monsters. ... He and his son Robert were killed along with 34 others on Wednesday, March 13, 1974 at 8:28 p.m. in the crash of a chartered Sierra Airlines Convair CV-440 aircraft near Bishop, California while filming the ABC/Wolper Productions television series Primal Man. The plane flew into a mountain ridge in darkness, but the exact cause of the crash was never determined." |
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