NYC86LA069 · Cessna 402
Cessna 402 · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
From 2B4 · Newport, RI to New Bedford, MA
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC86LA069
- 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 402
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 402
- 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
- N4033Q
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 2B4 · Newport, RITo New Bedford, MA
- 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
- 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
- Exhaust system › Fire
- Exhaust system, manifold/pipe › Cracked
- Exhaust system, turbocharger › Disabled
- Flight control, aileron › Disabled
- Flt control syst, aileron control › Burned
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of New Bedford, MA, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT EXPERIENCED INADEQUATE L ENG MANIFOLD PRES DURING A TKF ATTEMPT AT NEWPORT. THE TKF WAS ABORTED AND AFTERWARDS THE PLT DECIDED TO FERRY THE ACFT TO NEW BEDFORD FOR INSPECTION. THE ENG WERE RESTARTED AND OPERATION WAS GOOD. THE FLT TO NEW BEDFORD WAS WITHOUT INCIDENT UNTIL THE ACFT WAS ON A 2 MIS FINAL TO RWY 05 AT THIS TIME THE L ENG STOPPEDWHILE THE PLT ATTEMPTED TO FEATHER THE ENG, BOTH THE ENGINE AND PART OF THE L WING CAUGHT ON FIRE. THE PLT CONTINUED TO THE ARPT WITH THE FLAPS & GEAR DOWN AND A/S AT 125 MPH. THE PLT STATED HE WAS IN A GOOD POSITION TO LAND WHEN HE HEARD A LOUD BANG WHICH HE DESCRIBED SOUNDED LIKE A CABLE. THE ACFT ENTERED A 25 DEG L BANK. HE LEVELED THE WINGS BY REDUCING R ENG POWER. COLLOSION WITH TREES TO THE L OF THE RWY OCCURRED AFTERWARDS. EXAMINATION OF THE ACFT DISCLOSEDTHAT THE L ENG EXHAUST MANIFOLD HEADER ASSEMBLY, WHICH IS CONNECTED TO THE TURBOCHARGER, WAS CRACKED ALONG A WELD SEAM. ALSO REVEALED WAS THAT THE AILERON CABLES THAT ARE ROUTED BEIND THE L ENG WERE BURNED TO SEPARATION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC86LA069
- Event ID
- 20010110X00256
- Case number
- NYC86LA069
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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: 995591ebcbbbe98b33caa09ad498cde1c0fe002c477d30e9416f7f3c503c3e42; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:04:01.439Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: destination. The narrative states "THE PLT DECIDED TO FERRY THE ACFT TO NEW BEDFORD" and was "ON A 2 MIS FINAL TO RWY 05" there; the destination was not recorded.