• On October 28, 1959, a Cessna 310 carrying Cuban revolutionary
Camilo Cienfuegos disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean on a night flight from Camagüey to Havana. Neither the aircraft nor the body of Cienfuegos were ever found. • On November 26, 1962, a
Saab Scandia 90A-1,
aircraft registration PP-SRA of
VASP on a scheduled domestic service in Brazil from
São Paulo-Congonhas to
Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont collided in the air over Paraibuna, São Paulo, with a private Cessna 310
PT-BRQ en route from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont to
São Paulo-Campo de Marte. Both were flying on the same
airway in opposite directions and failed to have visual contact. The two aircraft crashed killing all 23 passengers and crew of the Saab and the four occupants of the Cessna. • On July 19, 1967, a
Boeing 727 operating as
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22 collided with a Cessna 310 near
Hendersonville, North Carolina, killing all 79 people on board the Boeing 727 and the three people in the Cessna. • On October 16, 1972, US Congressmen
Nick Begich of Alaska, and
Hale Boggs of Louisiana, disappeared over Alaska while flying in a 310C during a campaign trip. • On October 4, 1975, a chartered 310Q crashed on final approach to
New Hanover County Airport while transporting wrestlers
Bob Bruggers,
Ric Flair,
Johnny Valentine and
Tim Woods and promoter
David Crockett to a
professional wrestling match in nearby
Wilmington, North Carolina. Bruggers and Flair were seriously injured, while Valentine was paralyzed and the pilot subsequently died of his injuries. The aircraft was overloaded and its
center of gravity was beyond the aft limit; attempting to mitigate these problems, the pilot drained fuel before the flight, causing
fuel exhaustion before the aircraft reached the runway. • On September 11, 1981, a T310P crashed into an upper wall of the
Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, California, killing both aircraft occupants; the crash and a major ensuing fire caused severe damage to the building's roof, structural members, insulation, and about a third of the bleachers. The building was ultimately deemed beyond repair and was razed seven months later. • On June 29, 1989, concert organist
Keith Chapman and his wife were killed when their 310Q piloted by Chapman crashed into the
Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the
Colorado Rockies while they were returning from a performance in California. , the US
National Transportation Safety Board has recorded 1,787 incidents for Cessna 310s since 12 January 1964. Of these, 436 were fatal. ==Aircraft on display==