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NYC83FA045 · Cessna 182N

18 Dec 1982 · Ringwood, NJ, United States

Cessna 182N · Accident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) en route

From Knox County Regional Airport (RKD) to N52 · Somerville, NJ

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Event

NTSB case
NYC83FA045
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
1 · 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 182N

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
N92612
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Knox County Regional Airport (RKD), Rockland, METo N52 · Somerville, 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
Total loss of engine power (mechanical failure)
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

  • Fuel system, carburetor › Blocked(partial)
  • Fuel system, ram air/induction air › Disintegrated
  • Fuel system, ram air/induction air › Life expired
  • Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, replacement, not performed

Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Ringwood, NJ, the place the record names. Not the accident site.

NTSB narrative

THE PLT DECLARED AN EMERGENCY DUE TO POWER LOSS & THE ACFT CRASHED INTO A RESERVOIR. ENGINE EXAMINATION DISCLOSED NUMEROUS PIECES OF THE INDUCTION AIR FILTER THROUGHOUT THE ENGINE. FILTER PAPER WAS FOUND LODGED BETWEEN THE INTAKE VALVE & VALVE SEAT OF THE #5 CYLINDER, THE THROAT OF THE CARBURETOR VENTURI WAS ALMOST COMPLETELY BLOCKED BY PIECES OF THE FILTER PAPER, PAPER FRAGMENTS DROPPED FROM THE #4 CYLINDER INTAKE PORT, & SEVERAL PAPER FRAGMENTS WERE FOUND IN THE OIL SUMP. LITTLE OF THE PAPER ELEMENT REMAINED INSIDE OF THE AIR FILTER FRAME & THE PAPER THAT DID REMAIN WAS MARKEDLY DISCOLORED. APPROXIMATELY 1,100 HRS WERE ACCUMULATED BY THE FILTER SINCE ITS INSTALLATION NEARLY 10 YRS PRIOR. CESSNA RECOMMENDS THAT THE FILTER BE REPLACED EACH 500 HRS OF OPERATION.

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Sources

NTSB record NYC83FA045
Event ID
20020917X05065
Case number
NYC83FA045
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: 44bc761165590aed2c4e3bcf2d5bb01808e83bdbdd84a1b9b34b24bb79b8b931; retrieved 2026-09-21T07:22:19.325Z.