Cessna C-182E accident near Townsend, TN
On December 1, 1997, a Cessna C-182E (airplane) was involved in an accident near Townsend, TN. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- December 1, 1997
- Place
- Townsend, TN
- Aircraft
- Cessna C-182E · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 35.670°N, 83.750°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001208X09341
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On December 1, 1997, about 1634 eastern standard time, a Cessna C-182E, N9033Y, registered to a private individual, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, crashed about 22 miles southeast of Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport into mountainous terrain within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the closest reporting weather facility, and no flight plan had been filed. The aircraft was destroyed, and the private-rated pilot was fatally injured. The flight last departed Louisville's Bowman Field about 1 hour 45 minutes before the accident. Transcripts of conversations with a person identified as the pilot of N9033Y and Green Bay Automated Flight Service Station indicates the pilot planned to fly to Kissimmee, Florida, in time to attend a class on Monday, December 1, 1997. The person had obtained two comprehensive weather briefings from Green Bay AFSS, one on Sunday evening, November 30, 1997, at 1923 central standard time, that resulted in his canceling the flight for unsuitable weather, and the second briefing on Monday morning, December 1, 1997, at 0745, where the pilot mentions his intention to try to stay below the observed and forecast ceilings along his route of flight, (see comments at time, 1355:14 and time, 1359:47 on December 1, of AFSS briefing). Transcripts of Green Bay AFSS briefings are included in this report under Reports from Federal Agencies. The last fueling facility used by the pilot, Triangle Flying Service, at Louisville's Bowman Field, reported that N9033Y took aboard 37.8 gallons o
Probable cause
the pilot's failure to maintain VFR flight conditions in a mountainous area resulting in inflight collision with rising terrain.
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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.
