NYC85FA227 · Cessna 150M
Cessna 150M · Accident: in flight encounter with weather en route
From Rutland - Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT) to Essex County Airport (CDW)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC85FA227
- 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 150M
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 150
- 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
- N66190
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Rutland - Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT), Rutland, VTTo Essex County Airport (CDW), Caldwell, 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
- 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
- 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
- Visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)
- 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 › Clearance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Proper altitude, not attained
- Pilot in command › VFR flight into imc, inadvertent
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Danby, VT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT OF N66190 RECEIVED A WEATHER BRIEFING FROM LEBANON FLIGHT SERVICE STATION AND WAS ADVISED OF LOW CEILINGS AND ALSO ADVISED THAT VISUAL FLIGHT RULES FLIGHT WAS NOT RECOMMENDED. AT ABOUT THE TIME N66190 WAS DEPARTING RUTLAND, VERMONT, A HELICOPTER PILOT FLYING IN THE AREA REPORTED THE CEILING TO BE AT ABOUT 1500 WITH GOOD VISIBILITY UNDERNEATH. AT 2147 EDT, N66190 CONTACTED THE LEBANON FSS BY RADIO AND STATED THAT HE WAS ENROUTE TO CALDWELL, NEW JERSEY. THE PILOT REQUESTED THE WEATHER FOR ALBANY AND POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK. THE CURRENT WEATHER WAS PROVIDED AND ACKNOWLEDGED. NO FURTHER TRANSMISSIONS WERE RECEIVED FROM N66190. THE AIRCRAFT WAS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RUTLAND COUNTY STATED AIRPORT AT AN ALTITUDE OFABOUT 3100 FEET.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC85FA227
- Event ID
- 20001214X37607
- Case number
- NYC85FA227
- 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. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1985-09-01.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 8a66788cd86696aa1b875ca6b968bb6e9f3edf87f974189051e37dd8f27f9dec; retrieved 2026-09-21T04:51:42.625Z.