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- A Beechcraft B35 Bonanza was the aircraft Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in when the aircraft crashed in the middle of a snowstorm (see The Day the Music Died).
- On February 7, 1981, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak crashed his turbocharged A36TC Bonanza on takeoff from Santa Cruz Sky Park. NTSB investigation found that he was not endorsed to fly high performance aircraft. [4].
- On March 19, 1982, Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads was killed while flying in a Beechcraft Bonanza with pilot Andrew Aycock and band mate Rachel Youngblood.
- On April 7, 1982, former Austrian Formula One driver Harald Ertl and other members of his family died in a crash of a Model 36 Bonanza (BE36), due to engine failure, that was flown by his brother in law, Dr. Jörg Becker-Hohensee.
- On March 31, 1984, Robert J. Moriarty flew the Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza, N111MS, owned by Mike Smith of Mike Smith Speed Conversions in Johnson, Kansas, through the arches under the Eiffel Tower in Paris. [5][6]
- Former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher Jim Hardin died in a crash of his Beech 35-C33A on March 9, 1991.
- On March 13, 2006, game show host Peter Tomarken used his Bonanza A36 to pick up a person who needed treatment at the UCLA Medical Center when his plane suddenly crashed into the Santa Monica Bay. He and his wife were killed in the crash.
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