ATL84FA275 · Cessna TR182
Cessna TR182 · Accident: loss of engine power en route
From N69 · STORMVILLE, NY to GRE · NO.MYRTLE BCH, SC
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL84FA275
- 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
- 0 · 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 TR182
- 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
- N5071R
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From N69 · STORMVILLE, NYTo GRE · NO.MYRTLE BCH, SC
- 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
- Loss of engine power
- 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 › Gear extension, premature
- Pilot in command › IFR procedure, improper
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Wilmington, NC, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE POWER LOSS OCCURRED IN CRUISE AT 10,000 FT. AT 0903 EDT THE PILOT NOTIFIED WILMINGTON APPROACH CONTROL THAT HE HAD A 'ROUGH ENGINE' AND REQUESTED VECTORS TO WILMINGTON.APPROACH CONTROL RESPONDED WITH HEADING INFORMATION FOR THE BACK COURSE APPROACH AND A DESCENT TO 1,600 FT. AFTER INITIALLY TELLING THE CONTROLLER OF THE ENGINE TROUBLE NO FURTHER MENTION OF ENGINE STATUS WAS MADE BY THE PILOT. AT 0906 THE PILOT TRANSMITTED THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR THE APPROACH PLATE AND ASKED FOR THE LOCALIZER FREQ. ABOUT 3 MINS LATER, AFTER BEING GIVEN THE FREQ, THE PILOT WAS INFORMED BY THE CONTROLLER THAT HE WAS GOING THROUGH THE LOCALIZER AND GIVEN A HEADING CHANGE. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE EXTENDED THE LDG GEAR AT 4,800 FT BECAUSE HE DID NOT KNOW HOW FAR HE WAS FROM THE ARPT. TWICE DURING THE APPROACH THE PILOT WAS ADVISED OF HIS DISTANCE FROM THE FINAL APPROACH FIX. THE ACFT IMPACTED TREES APRX 2 MILES FROM THE ARPT.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL84FA275
- Event ID
- 20001214X40570
- Case number
- ATL84FA275
- 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: 450bec5f244fe64852d6586130478a7672198831537eb0c81b03e023217b474c; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:28:23.093Z.