Cessna 210C accident near Dawsonville, GA
On August 8, 1995, a Cessna 210C (airplane) was involved in an accident near Dawsonville, GA. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- August 8, 1995
- Place
- Dawsonville, GA
- Aircraft
- Cessna 210C · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 34.421°N, 84.110°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X04314
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On August 8, 1995, a Cessna 210C, N3698Y, registered to a private owner did not arrive at its intended destination in New Orleans, Louisiana, while on a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight. Instrument meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed. The flight originated from Roanoke, Virginia. The airplane was located on Burnt Mountain below Monument Road in Dawson County, Georgia, on August 19, 1995. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was destroyed and a postcrash fire ensued. The flight departed from Roanoke Regional Airport, Roanoke, Virginia, about 2 hours 12 minutes before the accident. The pilot contacted Leesburg Automated Flight Service Station by telephone in Roanoke, Virginia, at 12:54 to obtain a weather briefing. He informed the weather briefer that the weather did not appear to be VFR to the southwest. The weather briefer informed the pilot that there was a stationary front extending along his route of flight. Weather conditions along the ridges were marginal VFR to IFR with mountain obscurement. The weather in the vicinity of Peachtree Dekalb, Atlanta, Georgia, was very marginal to IFR. The pilot terminated the weather briefing at 13:00.(For additional information see the Leesburg Automated Flight Service Station Transcript.) Review of recorded communication between Roanoke Air Traffic Control Tower (ATCT), Roanoke ATCT East Radar, and N3698Y indicates N3698Y departed Roanoke Airport at 1325. Radar service was terminated at 1328, and there was no other known radio communication with N3698Y. (For additional inf
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S DISREGARD OF THE WEATHER FORECAST AND FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER (INSTRUMENT FLIGHT CONDITIONS), RESULTING IN AN IN-FLIGHT COLLISION WHILE MANEUVERING IN MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S LACK OF RECENT FLYING IN INSTRUMENT FLIGHT CONDITIONS.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
