Cessna TR182 accident near St. Simons Island, GA
On May 25, 2019, a Cessna TR182 (airplane) was involved in an accident near St. Simons Island, GA. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 25, 2019
- Place
- St. Simons Island, GA
- Aircraft
- Cessna TR182 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 31.233°N, 81.355°W
- NTSB ID
- 20190525X02531
Official records · ERA19FA179
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Radar Plots With Communication Inforrmation: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- CTAF Recording 1 (5 seconds long in .wav format, 172KB): Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
- CTAF Recording 2 (2 seconds long in .wav format, 86KB): Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn May 25, 2019, about 0923 eastern daylight time, a Cessna TR182, N6123T, was destroyed when it impacted terrain during a visual approach to McKinnon–St. Simons Island Airport (SSI), St. Simons Island, Georgia. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and an instrument flight rules flight plan was filed for the cross-country flight, which originated from Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV), Savannah, Georgia, about 0859. According to information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), at 0919, the flight was cleared for the visual approach to runway 22 at SSI, and the pilot was instructed to switch the radio frequency to the SSI common traffic advisory frequency, which the pilot acknowledged. Review of recordings of the common traffic advisory frequency at SSI revealed that the pilot reported the airplane was 9 miles north of, and on a straight-in approach to, runway 22. No further communication from the pilot was received, and radar contact with the airplane was lost at 0923, when the airplane was about 5 miles northeast of SSI at an altitude of 900 ft mean sea level (msl). (That altitude is usually where radar coverage is lost in that area.) Further review of the radar data revealed that the airplane made a gradual descent from an en route altitude of 4,000 to 1,700 ft msl. The final two radar targets, at 1,300 and 900 ft msl, each indicated that the airplane descended 4
Probable cause
The pilot's loss of airplane control during approach for undetermined reasons.
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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.
