Cessna T337G accident near Plano, IL
On September 29, 2014, a Cessna T337G (airplane) was involved in an accident near Plano, IL. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- September 29, 2014
- Place
- Plano, IL
- Aircraft
- Cessna T337G · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 41.639°N, 88.548°W
- NTSB ID
- 20140929X12854
Official records · CEN14FA522
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- ATC Transmission Summary: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn September 28, 2014, about 2002 central daylight time, a Cessna model T337G airplane, N37E, was substantially damaged when it collided with trees and terrain during cruise-descent near Plano, Illinois. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by Inline Aviation LTD under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 without a flight plan. Night visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the cross-country flight. The flight departed Litchfield Municipal Airport (3LF), Litchfield, Illinois, about 1855 and was en route to Aurora Municipal Airport (ARR), Sugar Grove, Illinois. According to air traffic control data, after departing 3LF, the flight proceeded on a direct course toward ARR and climbed to a cruise altitude of 7,500 ft mean sea level (msl). At 1951:52 (hhmm:ss), the pilot established radio contact with the Aurora tower controller and reported being about 15 minutes to the south of the airport and asked if the tower closed at 2100. The tower controller answered "affirmative" and the pilot replied that he would be landing in a few minutes. At 1954:54, the airplane entered a cruise-descent that continued until the end of available radar data at 2001:59. At 1959:41, the pilot reported being 10 miles to the south inbound for landing with Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) information Delta. The tower controller told the pilot to enter a left base for runway 27 and to report being 2 miles from the airport. At 2000:01, the pilot acknowledged the clearance to make a left base for runway 27
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to recognize the airplane’s low altitude and arrest the airplane’s descent on approach to the airport in dark night conditions, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s degraded night vision due to glaucoma and a cataract and his impairment from the use of diphenhydramine.
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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.
