NYC87DNC10 · Huffman QUICKIE Q2
Huffman QUICKIE Q2 · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) to Nashua Airport / Boire Field (ASH)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC87DNC10
- 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
- Unknown
Huffman QUICKIE Q2
- Aircraft type
- Huffman QUICKIE Q2
- 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
- N22QT
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR), Syracuse, NYTo Nashua Airport / Boire Field (ASH), Nashua, NH
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 encounter with weather
- 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 › Flight into known adverse weather, continued
- Pilot in command › Proper altitude, not maintained
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Peterborough, NH, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
AT 0939 EDT, THE ACFT DEPARTED SYRACUSE, NY, ON A FLT TO NASHUA, NH. SUBSEQUENTLY, IT WAS RPRTD MISSING. A SEARCH WAS INITIATED, BUT THE ACFT WAS NOT FOUND UNTIL IT WAS DISCOVERED BY A HIKER APRX 2 MONTHS LATER. THE ACFT HAD CRASHED BELOW A MTN TOP NEAR PETERBOROUGH, NH. INITIAL IMPACT WAS WITH TREES ON RISING TRRN AT AN ELEV OF APRX 2000'. THE ACFTCAME TO REST AFTER HITTING SVRL TREES & TRAVELING ABOUT 100' FROM THE INITIAL IMPACT POINT. NO PREIMPACT MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION OR FAILURE OF THE ACFT WAS RPRTD. AN ODOR OF FUEL WAS NOTED, THOUGH THE ACFT HAD REMAINED INVERTED FOR APRX2 MONTHS. DURING A PERIOD FROM 0751 TO 0951 EDT AT MANCHESTER, NH, THE CEILING WENT FROM AN ESTD 5000' BKN, 15,000' BKNTO 1000' OVC. DURING THE SAME PERIOD AT CONCORD, NH, THE CEILING WENT FROM 4000' BKN, 8000' BKN TO 800' BKN, 1900' OVC;AT 1014 EDT, THE CEILING AT CONCORD WAS 1100' OVC; THEN AT 1052, IT INCREASED TO 1700' AT 1052
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC87DNC10
- Event ID
- 20001213X31017
- Case number
- NYC87DNC10
- 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: ecd6f8a1e8789ee94fbaa2b6d667a60453a1882d19fca977de0d1c3dba987833; retrieved 2026-09-21T04:07:57.928Z.