ATL86LMG01 · Cessna 310R
Cessna 310R · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water on approach
From Wilson Industrial Air Center Airport (W03) to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL86LMG01
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 310R
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 310
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1771G
- Operator
- Bobby Williamson
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Wilson Industrial Air Center Airport (W03), Wilson, NCTo Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), Greer, SC
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · IFR final approach
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- In flight collision with terrain/water
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Proper glidepath, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT TOUCHED DOWN 150 FT SHORT OF RWY 04 AT THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN-WILSON ARPT. THE ACFT CONTACTED TWO ROWS OF APCH LIGHTS AND A GROUND DROP OFF WHICH SHEARED ALL THREE LANDING GEARS. THE FLT DEPARTED WILSON MUNICIPAL ARPT AND UPON REACHING 3700 FT THE PLT REPORTED A VIBRATION WHICH CEASED UPON REDUCTION IN PWR. THE PLT REQUESTED A LANDING AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN-WILSON ARPT WHERE A MAINTENANCE FACILITY WAS AVAILABLE. UPON VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE ARPT, THE PLT REQUESTED AND WAS GRANTED A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 04. THE PLT STATED HE HAD VIEW OF THE APCH AND RWY LIGHTS INSIDE THE OUTER MARKER BUT ONCE INSIDE THE MIDDLE MARKER, THE RWY DISAPPEARED IN FOG. PWR WAS INCREASED FROM 15 TO 18 INCHES MP, HOWEVER, THE ACFT CONTACTED THE GROUND SHORT OF THE RWY.POST ACCIDENT INSPECTION OF THE ACFT AND ENGS FAILED TO DISCLOSE ANY MECHANICAL FAILURE/MALFUNCTION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL86LMG01
- Event ID
- 20001214X37719
- Case number
- ATL86LMG01
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 58a4a6998e6a0f088eebb20b8392abc35e897def5386c9197a995a75a0178d23; retrieved 2026-09-23T15:42:37.167Z.