Cessna 310R N98841

Summary

On 9 August 1982 at about 05:36 local time, a Cessna 310R registered N98841, operated by Series Contracting Company, was involved in an accident near Danbury, Connecticut, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

9 August 1982 at 05:36

Classification

Accident

Location

Danbury, Connecticut, United States

Nearest airport

Danbury

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 310R

Registration

N98841

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Series Contracting Company

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Westhampton → Teterboro

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

NYC82FA188

1 person died.

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

APPROACHING THE DESTINATION ARPT, THE PLT WAS ADVISED TO PLAN A VOR RWY 24 APPROACH & THAT HE WOULD BE TURNED JUST INSIDE THE FAF. AT 0055, NEWARK A/C IDENTIFIED THE ACFT 3 MI NORTH OF THE ARPT STILL AT 2,000 FT & ASKED THE PLT IF HE WAS ABLE TO EXECUTE THE APCH FROM THAT POINT. THE PLT REPLIED NEGATIVE, HE WAS IN THE CLOUDS & COULDN'T SEE THE RWY. THE PLT WAS THEN GIVEN TURNS FOR A VECTOR FOR AN ILS RWY 6 APCH. THE PLT DID NOT RESPOND TO SUBSEQUENT TRANSMISSIONS & AT 0104, KENNEDY APCH ADVISED NEWARK APCH THAT FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, THEY WERE WORKING THE ACFT. AT 0108 THE PLT RETURNED TO NEWARK APCH FREQ & WAS GIVEN VECTORS TO INTERCEPT THE LOCALIZER. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, NEWARK APCH LOST RADIO CONTACT WITH THE ACFT. BOTH NEWARK APCH & KENNEDY APCH WERE UNSUCCESSFUL IN RE-ESTABLISHING RADIO CONTACT WITH THE PLT. AT 0129 A TARGET WAS OBSERVED OVER WESTCHESTER COUNTY ARPT & AT 0132 THE ACFT WAS OVER DANBURY ARPT. THE ACFT IMPACTED A HILL AT AN ELEVATION OF 700 FT.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.