Cessna 182 accident near Mulberry, TN
On May 3, 2015, a Cessna 182 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Mulberry, TN. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 3, 2015
- Place
- Mulberry, TN
- Aircraft
- Cessna 182 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 35.221°N, 86.433°W
- NTSB ID
- 20150504X05958
Official records · ERA15FA204
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On May 3, 2015, about 1433 eastern daylight time, N6579M, a Cessna 182P, was destroyed when it impacted terrain and livestock near Mulberry, Tennessee. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot. No flight plan was filed for the flight that originated at Winchester Municipal Airport (BGF), Winchester, Tennessee, about 1413 central daylight time. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the personal flight conducted under 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. A friend of the pilot stated that she had hiked earlier in the day with her children and had planned to go for a short pleasure flight in the afternoon. A handheld Garmin 396 GPS was located in the wreckage and sent to the NTSB Vehicle Recorder Laboratory for download. Eighty-one fights were downloaded from the unit. Although date and time were unable to be converted accurately, the final flight matched the accident flight but had an hour difference in the time recorded and the time of the accident. Plus, there was a 20 year and one day difference in date recorded and date of the accident. The accident flight was recorded starting at 1313:04 and ending at 1333:54 on May 4, 1995. A review of the data revealed that the after the airplane departed Winchester to the south, it made a right turn toward the west north-west and climbed to 3,400 ft mean sea level (msl). At 1332:59, the airplane was still on a west-northwest heading but had descended to 2,866 ft msl at a groundspeed of 122 knots. Over the next minute, the airplane momentarily slowed do
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to recover from a controlled descent for reasons that could not be determined during the postaccident investigation.
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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.
