Cessna 182C accident near Hiddenite, NC
On June 21, 2007, a Cessna 182C (airplane) was involved in an accident near Hiddenite, NC. 2 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- June 21, 2007
- Place
- Hiddenite, NC
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182C · Airplane
- Injuries
- 2 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 35.918°N, 81.114°W
- NTSB ID
- 20070712X00923
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On June 21, 2007, about 1150 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 182C, N8691T, was destroyed when it impacted terrain at Gryder-Teague Airport (NC58), Hiddenite, North Carolina. The certificated private pilot/owner and the certificated flight instructor were fatally injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan was filed for the local flight, which departed Taylorsville Airport (4NC3), Taylorsville, North Carolina. The instructional flight was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91. According to relatives, the flight was intended as training for the pilot/owner. A notation in the pilot's logbook, for a flight 1 day earlier, stated, "Instrument (illegible) Instructor." There were no witnesses to the accident, and the extent to which a preflight inspection was performed was unknown. According to a representative from the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, the airplane's emergency locator transmitter signal was received by a satellite at 1150, and notification from the satellite occurred at 1204. PERSONNEL INFORMATION According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, the pilot/owner, age 75, held a private pilot certificate. His latest FAA third class medical certificate was issued on July 18, 2005. The pilot/owner's logbook indicated that he had accumulated 279 hours of flight time. The flight instructor, age 70, held an airline transport pilot certificate for airplane multiengine land, a commercial certificate for airplane single-engine land and single-engine sea, and was rated in a number of transport category airplanes. He also
Probable cause
Carburetor icing, which resulted in a loss of engine power. Also causal, was the pilots' failure to maintain airspeed during the forced landing, which resulted in an inadvertent stall.
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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.
