Date:	Tuesday 18 September 1956
Time:	09:40 LOC
Type:	Beechcraft A35 Bonanza
Owner/operator:	private
Registration:	HB-ECN
MSN:	D 1991
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	5 nm ENE LSGL/Bois du Grand Jorat -   Switzerland
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Schmitten (closed)
Destination airport:	LSGL
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
On a VFR flight from Schmitten to Lausanne below a low stratus layer in reduced visibility the pilot entered clouds and the a/c collided with trees at 715 m AMSL. The pilot was heavily injured and the plane destroyed.
Du to the bad meteo the pilot had delayed his departure. Without a new briefing he departed in the direction of worsening conditions.
CFIT

Accident Report by Swiss Federal Office of Air Accident Investigation: Aero Revue 33 (1958) Nr 2, 83-86

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
22-Mar-2014 18:50	sparrow9	Added
06-Jun-2021 15:39	TB	Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Other fatalities, ]