Cessna 310R accident near Seymour Twp., WI
On September 1, 1998, a Cessna 310R (airplane) was involved in an accident near Seymour Twp., WI. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- September 1, 1998
- Place
- Seymour Twp., WI
- Aircraft
- Cessna 310R · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 44.821°N, 91.491°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001211X10789
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On August 31, 1998, at 1946 central daylight time (cdt), a Cessna 310R, N5056J, piloted by a commercial pilot, and operated as Night Chase Cargo Flight 303 under 14 CFR Part 135, collided with a Cessna 185B, N100TS, which was piloted by a private pilot. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. N5056J's pilot had just activated an IFR flight plan and was climbing to its assigned altitude of 4,000 above mean sea level (msl). N100TS was a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight that was not operating on a flight plan. Witnesses reported that N100TS was in level cruise flight. Both pilots were fatally injured. There were no other occupants in the airplanes. N5056J had departed Eau Claire, Wisconsin, exact time unknown. N100TS had departed a restricted landing area near Wissota, Wisconsin, 1935 cdt. According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Minneapolis, Minnesota, Air Route Traffic Control Center controller handling N5056J, the "...pilot of [N5056J] checked in on frequency climbing out of 2,500 feet. I acknowledged the check on and I was requesting a report level at 5,000 feet... [when] an ELT signal sounded in the overhead speaker. No further communications were received from [N5056J]." A witness reported seeing N5056J climbing while flying in a north-northeast direction. He said he saw N100TS flying on a westerly heading. He said the airplanes collided and both "...aircraft [were] engulfed in flames on the way to [the] ground. No glide, both aircraft fell straight down to [the] ground." A second witness confirmed the first w
Probable cause
the pilots of both airplanes not maintaining visual separation from the other airplane.
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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.
