Beech K35 accident near Jellico, TN
On October 9, 2002, a Beech K35 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Jellico, TN. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- October 9, 2002
- Place
- Jellico, TN
- Aircraft
- Beech K35 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 36.551°N, 84.090°W
- NTSB ID
- 20021018X05327
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On October 9, 2002, about 1057 eastern daylight time, a Beech K35, N5350E, registered to a private owner, operating as a 14 CFR Part 91 personal flight, broke up in flight after the pilot became incapacitated in the vicinity of Jellico, Tennessee, on Pine Mountain. Marginal visual meteorological conditions prevailed in the vicinity of the accident site, and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed. The airplane was destroyed. The private pilot was fatally injured. The flight originated from Houghton Lake, Michigan, on October 9, 2002, at 0802. Review of transcripts between the pilot and Indianapolis Center revealed the pilot had requested and received weather for Atlanta, Georgia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Indianapolis Center started coordinating a hand-off of the flight with Atlanta Center at 1048:36. Indianapolis Center instructed the pilot to contact Atlanta Center at 1056:03. The pilot did not respond to the request. Indianapolis Center instructed the pilot to contact Atlanta Center again at 1056:13, and to verify that he was level at 9,000 feet. The pilot did not respond to the request. The last radar return observed by Indianapolis Center was at 1056:10, and the mode C read out showed the airplane was at 7,700 feet. At 1055 and 1106, the Campbell County 911 operator located in La Follette, Tennessee, stated he received two phone calls from separate local residents stating that they had heard an airplane fly over their location followed by what sounded like a "plane going down." A Sheriff Deputy was dispatched and pieces of the airplane wrecka
Probable cause
The pilot's incapacitation in flight due to a heart attack resulting in an in-flight loss of control, and collision with terrain. A factor was the pilot acting as a pilot-in-command with a known medical grounding condition.
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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.
