NYC83LA068 · Cessna 177
Cessna 177 · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From 3B7 · Belfast, ME to Lancaster Airport (LNS)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC83LA068
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 177
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 177
- 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
- N2227Y
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 3B7 · Belfast, METo Lancaster Airport (LNS), Lancaster, PA
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- 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
- Fuel exhaustion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fluid, fuel › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Level off, improper
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Reading, PA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
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
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC83LA068
- Event ID
- 20001214X42298
- Case number
- NYC83LA068
- 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: 2a152755a23977681909acad5a32ea62833a73db5bc0563289db39425d9bc137; retrieved 2026-09-23T23:03:25.325Z.