Cessna 414 N822DB

Summary

On 10 April 2003 at about 21:00 local time, a Cessna 414 registered N822DB, operated by James Carr Gilmore, was involved in an accident near Waleska, Georgia, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

10 April 2003 at 21:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Waleska, Georgia, United States

Nearest airport

Cherokee County (47A)

Coordinates

34.3167, -84.6531

Aircraft

Cessna 414

Registration

N822DB

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

James Carr Gilmore

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Rome → Canton

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ATL03FA077

1 person died.

The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The VFR repositioning flight departed Rome, Georgia en route to Canton, Georgia but never arrived. Late on the evening of April 10, 2003, the pilot's spouse contacted the local authorities when her husband did not arrive at home or call. The spouse stated that her husband flew out of Rome early Thursday morning headed to Augusta, Georgia to pick up an unknown number of passengers and fly them back to Rome, Georgia. The authorities confirmed that the passengers had arrived at their destination. The Civil Air patrol began a search and located the airplane on the side of "Bear Mountain" in Canton, Georgia, on April 11, 2003. The wreckage site was located 11.3 nautical miles west of Cherokee County Airport, Canton, Georgia, and 26 nautical miles east of Rome, Georgia on the west side of Bear Mountain. The mountains ridgeline runs northeast and southwest, near the town of Waleska, Georgia. The field elevation at the crash site was 1,750 feet above mean sea level (msl) and the peak of Bear Mountain was 2,268 feet msl. The upslope of the terrain at the site was estimated at 30-40 degrees. Examination of the airframe, flight controls, engine assembly and accessories revealed no anomalies.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.