Date:	Thursday 5 August 2010
Time:	23:35
Type:	Cessna 414A Chancellor
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	C-GENG
MSN:	414A0288
Year of manufacture:	1979
Engine model:	Teledyne Continental TSIO-520-NB
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	13 nm ENE off Sydney, NS -   Canada
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Executive
Departure airport:	Toronto-Buttonville Airport, ON (YKZ/CYKZ)
Destination airport:	Sydney Airport, NS (YQY/CYQY)
Investigating agency:	TSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The privately owned Cessna 414A departed Toronto/Buttonville Municipal Airport, Ontario, en route to Sydney, Nova Scotia. The flight was operating under an instrument flight rules flight plan with the pilot-in-command and the aircraft owner on board. Nearing Sydney, the aircraft was cleared to conduct an instrument approach. At the final approach waypoint the pilot was advised to discontinue the approach due to conflicting traffic. While manoeuvring for a second approach, the aircraft departed from controlled flight, entered a rapid descent and impacted the water at 2335 Atlantic Daylight Time.
The aircraft wreckage was located using a side-scan sonar 11 days later, in 170 feet of water. The aircraft had been destroyed and both occupants were fatally injured. No signal was detected from the emergency locator transmitter.

Findings as to Causes and Contributing Factors
1. It is likely that the PIC and the owner were both suffering some degree of spatial disorientation during the final portion of the flight. This resulted in a loss of control of the aircraft and the crew was unable to recover prior to contacting the surface of the water.
2. The PIC did not accept assistance in the form of radar vectors, which contributed to the workload during the approach.
3. Self-imposed pressure likely influenced the crew’s decision to depart Buttonville despite the flight conditions, lengthy day, and lack of experience with the aircraft and the destination airport.

CADORS # 2010A0783
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/08/12/ns-rcmp-end-air-search-for-plane...]
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http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2010-08-17/article-1677518/Missing-Cessna,-human-remains-found-11-kilometres-off-Glace-Bay-coast/1

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
12-Aug-2010 13:47	peterj	Added
15-Aug-2010 13:00	Anon.	Updated [Cn]
17-Aug-2010 13:36	peterj	Updated [Source, Narrative]
06-Apr-2011 11:51	gerard57	Updated [Source, Damage, Narrative]
25-Oct-2023 16:00	harro	Updated [[Source, Damage, Narrative]]