ATL05FA066 · Cessna T206H
Cessna T206H · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water on approach
From ISZ · Blue Ash, OH to Charleston Executive Airport (JZI)
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL05FA066
- 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
- 2 · 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna T206H
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- 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
- N222YT
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From ISZ · Blue Ash, OHTo Charleston Executive Airport (JZI), Johns Island, 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
- 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 › Altitude, not maintained
- Pilot in command › IFR procedure, not followed
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Upon arrival at the destination airport, the flight was cleared for an ILS Approach to runway 09. The flight was inbound from the final approach fix when it descended below published minimums, collided with the ground, and burst into flames approximately 866 feet left and 597 feet short of the runway. The last radar return reported the airplane inbound from the final approach fix, 0.19 nautical miles from the runway, 200 feet above the ground, and traveling at 70 knots. Post-accident examination of the airplane revealed fire damage. Post-accident examination revealed no evidence of mechanical malfunction with the airframe or engine. The ILS approach to runway 09 was test flown on March, 29, 2005 by an FAA Flight Inspector and was found satisfactory. At 2114 eastern standard time, the Charleston Executive Airport weather reporting facility, reported winds from 090 degrees, magnetic, at nine knots, visibility of 0.25 statute miles, overcast 100 feet, temperature 14 degrees, Celsius, and dew-point 14 degrees, Celsius, and an altimeter setting of 30.00 inches of mercury. Published weather minimums for the ILS runway 9 (S-ILS ) are 267 feet with 0.75 mile visibility.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to follow instrument flight procedures and descent below the published minimum descent altitude, which resulted in an in-flight collision with terrain during an instrument approach.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL05FA066
- Event ID
- 20050331X00385
- Case number
- ATL05FA066
- 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: local date, investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2005-03-27.
- API snapshot SHA-256: eb18948c460ee72a9ddbdf8fd8c4f7f11e81ba2f811dd2f06f5a756891051ef8; retrieved 2026-09-20T18:05:43.071Z.