NYC84FA294 · Cessna 414
Cessna 414 · Accident: in flight collision with terrain/water on approach
From Worcester Regional Airport (ORH) to Rutland - Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC84FA294
- 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 414
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 414
- 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
- N18SM
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Worcester Regional Airport (ORH), Worcester, MATo Rutland - Southern Vermont Regional Airport (RUT), Rutland, VT
- 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
- 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 terrain/water
- 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 › Missed approach, not performed
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Wallingford, VT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT WAS EXECUTING SECOND ATTEMPT FOR A INSTRUMENT APCH, LDA RWY 19, FOLLOWING A MISSED APCH ON THE FIRST ATTEMPT. THE PLT LAST REPORTED OVER THE IAF, 9 MIS NORTH OF THE ARPT. THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH A MOUNTAIN AT A ELEVATION OF 1700 FTAND 5 MIS SOUTH OF THE ARPT. THE WRECKAGE WAS ORIENTED ON A 190 DEG MAG HEADING AND NEAR THE EXTENDED CENTERLINE OF RWY 19. THE MDA FOR THE APCH IS 1680 FT MSL. THE MAP IS A CLIMBING RIGHT TURN TO 5000 FT DIRECT TO THE IAF. THE ARPT IS SURROUNDED BY MOUNTAINS. THE LANDING GEAR AND FLAPS WERE FOUND EXTENDED. EXAMINATION OF THE ACFT DISCLOSED ON EVIDENCE OF MALFUNCTION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC84FA294
- Event ID
- 20001214X40851
- Case number
- NYC84FA294
- 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: 5b2be7ba906e3f496842d97c0c86a16043c1716d6d3956a154d937cac7e74a50; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:22:45.271Z.