DCA83AA006 · Cessna 182Q
Cessna 182Q and Aero Commander 560E · Accident: midair collision en route
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA83AA006
- 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
Aircraft 1 · Cessna 182Q
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N96402
- Operator
- Anthony D. Losicco · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Manville, NJTo SPRING VALLEY, NJ
- 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
- Midair collision
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Aircraft 2 · Aero Commander 560E
- Aircraft type
- Aero Commander 560
- 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
- N3827C
- Operator
- Alfred Wonesh
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Blairstown, NJTo TETERSBORO, NJ
- 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
- Midair collision
- 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 › Visual lookout, inadequate
- Pilot of other aircraft › Visual lookout, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Livingston, NJ, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
AERO COMMANDER 560E, N3827C (27C), WAS RETURNING FROM BLAIRSTOWN WHERE IT HAD BEEN FLOWN FOR MINOR MAINT. THE PLT WAS ON AN IFR FLT PLAN, CLEARED BY NEW YORK TRACON TO PROCEED AT 2000 FT MSL ON A RADAR VECTOR OF 170 DEG FOR AN ILS APCH TO THE TETERBORO ARPT. THE ACFT WAS EQUIPPED WITH AN ALT ENCODING TRANSPONDER THAT WAS BEING USED. THE PLT WAS ADVISED OF NUMEROUS TARGETS AT HIS 12 O'CLOCK POSITION. AT APRX THE SAME TIME, CESSNA 182Q, N96402 (402), WAS ON A FLT FROM THE KUPPER ARPT TO RAMAPO ARPT. A DIRECT ROUTE BETWEEN THESE ARPTS WOULD HAVE INTERSECTED THE NW EDGE OF THE NEW YORK TCA WHERE POSITIVE CONTROL BEGAN BETWEEN 1800 & 7000 FT MSL. THE PLT WAS PROCEEDING VFR WITH NO FLT PLAN & WAS NOT IN RADIO COMM WITH ANY ATC FACILITY. 402 WAS EQUIPPED WITH A TRANSPONDER THAT WAS OPERATING, BUT HAD NO ALT ENCODING CAPABILITY. AS THE ACFT CONVERGED, 402 WAS ON A NORTHEASTERLY HEADING. THE PLANES COLLIDED ABOUT 1 MI INSIDE THE TCA. THEN IMPACTED THE GROUND APRX 1500 FT APART. A MAP WAS FOUND IN 402 WITH A LINE DRAWN BETWEEN THE ARPTS & INTERSECTING THE TCA.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DCA83AA006
- Event ID
- 20020917X04493
- Case number
- DCA83AA006
- 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: 42d43dcc638d0b05278defd83e59385af1fb55fbc754f1be39bfd6c6308a4fc1; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:29:44.453Z.