The State - News from June 6, 1988

A Civil Air Patrol pilot flying over the Sierra Nevada spotted the wreckage of a twin-engine plane which may be an aircraft missing since May 28 with four San Bernardino County residents aboard, authorities said. Air patrol members and Madera County sheriff’s deputies were helicoptered in to the rugged site, about 15 to 20 miles southwest of Mammoth in central Sierra Nevada, air patrol Col. Frank Burnham said. Ground crews will try to determine if the wreckage is that of a Cessna 421 that flew out of Rialto in San Bernardino County on May 28 bound for Truckee, Burnham said. “Those mountains are dotted with wrecks,” he said. “Unless you can get a clear shot of a tail number from the air, the only way you can know for sure is to send a ground crew in there and make a positive ID.”