Cessna 210L accident near Midway, GA
On December 21, 2020, a Cessna 210L (airplane) was involved in an accident near Midway, GA. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- December 21, 2020
- Place
- Midway, GA
- Aircraft
- Cessna 210L · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 31.718°N, 81.319°W
- NTSB ID
- 20201221102445
Official records · ERA21LA085
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn December 20, 2020, about 2011 eastern standard time, a Cessna 210L, N2246S, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Midway, Georgia. The private pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Earlier on the day of the accident, the pilot flew his airplane from Eagle Neck Airport (1GA0), Shellman Bluff, Georgia, to East Georgia Regional Airport (SBO), Swainsboro, Georgia, where he worked a 12-hour shift in the local emergency room before leaving the medical center around 1915. The pilot exchanged text messages with his son before and during the accident flight. In an exchange of messages sent around 1900, they discussed the instrument meteorological conditions at 1GA0, which were described by his son as low instrument flight rules conditions with “low fog and [a] lot of rain” as well as 400-foot ceilings at Brunswick Golden Isle Airport (BQK), located about 22 nautical miles (nm) south-southwest of 1GA0. The pilot responded that he would check the weather before he left, would depart soon, and that he might stop in Claxton, Georgia, for fuel. A review of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) track data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) revealed that the pilot departed runway 14 at SBO around 1940. The 1931 reported ceiling at SBO was overcast at 300 ft above ground level (agl). After departure, the airplane initially turned to the east, overflying the town of Swainsboro, before turning back to the right and tracking southeas
Probable cause
The pilot's intentional visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in controlled flight into terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pressure to complete the flight to work in an emergency room.
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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.
