Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | Final |
| Date: | 11 JAN 1989 |
| Time: | 07:28 |
| Type: | Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster |
| Operator: | Atlantic Aero |
| Registration: | N9330B |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0053 |
| First flight: | 1987 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 896 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Destroyed |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Rockingham County/Shiloh Airport, NC (United States of America)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA (ROA/KROA), United States of America |
| Greensboro/High Point-Piedmont Triad International Airport, NC (GSO/KGSO), United States of America |
The pilot had to divert from Greensboro (GSO) to the Rockingham County/Shiloh Airport because of below-minima weather at the destination. He tried to carry out a visual approach to runway 31 in conditions of patchy fog. The aircraft struck trees and crashed during a go-around.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Improper IFR procedure by the pilot and his failure to maintain the minimum descent altitude (MDA). Contributing factors were: low ceiling, fog, delayed missed approach by the pilot, and trees." Events:
Sources:
» NTSB
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Distance from Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA to Greensboro/High Point-Piedmont Triad International Airport, NC as the crow flies is 136 km (85 miles).
Distance from Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA to Greensboro/High Point-Piedmont Triad International Airport, NC as the crow flies is 136 km (85 miles).
