NYC83FA198 · Cessna 210H
Cessna 210H · Accident: in flight encounter with weather on approach
From Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK) to Salmon River Airfield (9B8)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC83FA198
- 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
- 3 · 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 210H
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- 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
- N1968X
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK), Nantucket, MATo Salmon River Airfield (9B8), MARLBOROUGH, CT
- 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 · VFR pattern final
- 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 › VFR flight into imc, performed
- Pilot in command › Visual/aural perception
- Pilot in command › Weather evaluation, inaccurate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Marlborough, CT, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT COLLIDED WITH TREES AND THE GROUND DURING AN APPROACH TO LAND ON A FOGGY NIGHT AT AN ARPT WITH NO INSTRUMENT APPROACH FACILITIES OR CONTROL. THE 67 YEAR OLD PLT HAD CANCELED HIS IFR FLT PLAN AT 2110 EDT. THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT 2115 EDT. THE PLT AND 2 PASSENGERS WERE FATALLY INJURED. ONE PASSENGER ESCAPED WITH A BROKEN JAW, ELBOWS AND NOSE. HE WAS SEATED IN THE RIGHT REAR WITH SEAT BELT UNFASTENED AND REMEMBERS AWAKENING TO SEE THE RWY LIGHTS AT THE SAME LEVEL AS THE ACFT. HE STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THE ENGINE WAS RUNNING AND MAKING NO UNUSUAL NOISES. A FRIEND HAD TURNED THE ARPTLIGHTS ON AT ABOUT 2000 HRS EDT. A WITNESS SAID THERE WAS A LOW LEVEL GROUND FOG BELOW THE LEVEL OF THE STREETLIGHTS NEAR THE ARPT AT 2130 EDT. AT NEW HAVEN CT THE WEATHER WAS BELOW MINIMUMS. THE ACFT WAS APPROACHING RWY 17. THE HEADING OF ITS COLLISION PATH WAS 148 DEGREES. THE MAIN WRECKAGE CAME TO REST 900 FT FROM THE APPROACH END OF THE RWY AND 270 FTEAST OF THE EXTENDED CENTERLINE.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC83FA198
- Event ID
- 20001214X43904
- Case number
- NYC83FA198
- 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 1983-08-01.
- API snapshot SHA-256: cae91e12cae9a212fe3c655948a04fc8a86e241b2d0ac0fb59018fcb561432ba; retrieved 2026-09-21T06:24:50.725Z.