Savannah - Pontiac

On January 12, 1975 at 07:50 PM, Savannah - Pontiac experienced a crash involving Cessna 411, operated by Paul B. Jatkoe, with the event recorded near Wise Virginia.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 7 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 5, passenger fatalities: 5, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. While in cruising altitude over Virginia by night, the crew encountered icing conditions and requested a higher altitude but this was denied. Few minutes later, the twin engine airplane entered a dive and crashed in a near vertical attitude in a field located in Wise. The aircraft was totally destroyed upon impact and all seven occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N100KC, MSN 411A-0296, year of manufacture 1969.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 37.0171°, -82.6104°.