Cessna 525, West Gardiner, Maine, Feb. 1, 2008–N102PT, registered to Symons Jeanette Trustee, was destroyed and the pilot and single passenger
were killed when the CJ crashed soon after takeoff from Augusta State Airport (AUG). IMC prevailed at the time of the accident and an IFR flight plan had been filed for the Part 91 flight to Lincoln Airport in Nebraska. Employees of the FBO stated that at the pilot’s request the airplane was fueled the morning of the accident and moved from the ramp into the FBO’s hangar, which is also used by an airline based at the airport.
When the airline’s late-afternoon flight was canceled due to weather conditions, the Cessna was taken out of the hangar around 4 p.m. and moved back to the ramp area to allow for the airline’s airplane to be put back into the hangar. According to witnesses, the pilot and passenger arrived at the airport at about 5:15 p.m. and quickly boarded the airplane. The 45-year-old private pilot declined to have the airplane de-iced. At about 5:30 p.m., the airplane’s engines were heard starting and soon afterward the twinjet was seen taxiing.
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