ATL82IA038 · de Havilland DHC-6-300
Calvin Cafritz Enterprises de Havilland DHC-6-300 · Incident: airframe, component or system failure en route
From Toronto, ONTARI to Washington, DC
Event
- NTSB case
- ATL82IA038
- 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
- Incident
- 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
de Havilland DHC-6-300
- Aircraft type
- de Havilland DHC-6
- 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
- N9240N
- Operator
- Calvin Cafritz Enterprises
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Toronto, ONTARITo Washington, DC
- 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 · descent
- 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
- Airframe, component or system failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Anti-ice/deice system, q-spring inlet anti-ice › Shorted
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Washington, DC, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
AIRCRAFT WAS BEING FERRIED TO WASHINGTON, DC FOLLOWING REWORK IN TORONTO, CANADA. DURING LETDOWN IN IFR CONDITIONS AND MODERATE ICING, PILOT NOTICED A GLOW ON THE RIGHT WING. AS HE LEANED OVER TO CHECK IT, THE RIGHT ENGINE FIRE WARNING LIGHT AND FIRE BELL WENT OFF. THE PILOT SECURED THE ENGINE AND LANDED WITHOUT FURTHER INCIDENT. INVESTIGATION REVEALED THAT THE RIGHT ENGINE INLET DEICE BOOT HAD SHORTED OUT. FIRE DAMAGE WAS LIMITED TO THE BOOT. THE DEICING BOOT HAD BEEN INSTALLED DURING THE REFURBISHMENT. THE CAUSE OF THE SHORT WAS NOT DETERMINED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ATL82IA038
- Event ID
- 20020917X01766
- Case number
- ATL82IA038
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1982-01-20.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d5e6c84c097f133a86ef86f43f6ab2c9b0c1289d3e927a86f319c65052cd65a0; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:46:30.611Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: destination. The narrative states "AIRCRAFT WAS BEING FERRIED TO WASHINGTON, DC FOLLOWING REWORK IN TORONTO, CANADA"; Pontiac, MI is not mentioned.