NYC89FA190 · Cessna 182Q
Cessna 182Q · Accident: in flight collision with object on approach
From Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport (DKK) to Linden Airport (LDJ)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC89FA190
- 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
- 1 · 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 182Q
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N759MN
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Chautauqua County-Dunkirk Airport (DKK), Dunkirk, NYTo Linden Airport (LDJ), Linden, NJ
- 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 initial 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 object
- 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
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › IFR procedure, not followed
- Pilot in command › Minimum descent altitude, not maintained
Not plotted · Location withheld: coordinates are missing, conflicting, invalid, or have no accepted acquisition method. No substitute location has been invented.
NTSB narrative
DRG ARR, THE FLT WAS VCTRD FOR AN NDB-B APCH TO THE LINDEN ARPT. AT THAT TIME, WX AT NEWARK, NJ, WAS RPRTD AS PARTIALLY OBSCD, 400' SCT, 15,000 SCT, VIS 1 MI WITH FOG, TEMP & DEW POINT 71 DEG, WND FM 220 DEG AT 3 KTS, ALTIMETER 30.09' HG. THERE WAS NO WX RPRT FOR LINDEN, BUT A PLT, WHO LNDD EARLIER, RPRTD HE HAD THE ARPT IN SITE ABT 8 MI OUT, THOUGH THERE WAS GROUND FOG. AT 0559:50, BEFORE RCHG THE FINAL APCH FIX (FAF), THE PLT (OF N759MN) WAS CLRD FOR THE APCH. AT 0600:45, RADAR SVC WAS TRMTD & THE PLT WAS CLRD TO CHG TO ADZY FREQ. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ACFT HIT THE TOP OF A 75' TREE & CRASHED JUST SHORT OF THE FAF. A WITNESS RPRTD THAT JUST BFR THE ACDNT, THE ACFT APPEARED TO 'POP OUT' OF A CLOUD AT ABT 100' AGL IN A DSCNT. MIN DSCNT ALT (MDA) FOR THAT SEGMENT OF THE APCH WAS 2000'; MDA FOR FINAL APCH WAS 640'; ELEV OF THE CRASH SITE WAS ABT 220'. RADAR DATA SHOWED THAT THE ACFT HAD DSCNDD TO 1800' AT 0559:59, THEN WAS AT 1300' AT 0600:46. THE CONTROLLER DID NOT ENABLE THE MIN SAFE ALT WARNING (MSAW) SYS.
Probable cause
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW THE IFR PROCEDURE AND MAINTAIN THE MINIMUM DESCENT ALTITUDE (MDA) FOR THAT SEGMENT OF THE APPROACH. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: MINIMUM SAFE ALTITUDE WARNING (MSAW) RADAR NOT ENABLED, AND FAILURE OF THE APPROACH CONTROLLER TO PROVIDE A SAFETY ADVISORY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC89FA190
- Event ID
- 20001213X29223
- Case number
- NYC89FA190
- 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: 866bc8b3c35b732faf8689dfde84920c0a89fe242e3ecc4f57ccf8965c0aeb3a; retrieved 2026-09-21T03:11:35.866Z.