Atlas / NTSB / NYC72FNE20

NTSB CAROL · Event

Event NYC72FNE20

1971-12-15 SIMSBURY, Connecticut, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Aircraft involved

N3366R Cessna 182L None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 182L · N3366R

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

EC

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

SIMSBURY

Kind of flying

DD

Weather at impact

Sky

OVERCAST

Wind

020° / 5 kt

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000018258666

Total time

772 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

4,800

Age

45

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

NOT RSPND TO THROTTLE,HIT TREES.WX BLO LOC MINS.

Investigator remarks

DSNDD,8000FT,RDCD PWR,IN CLDS,TO 2000FT.ENG DID

Cause factors

64/C/21 C
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS Cause
88/C/02 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE Cause
88/C/72 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS ICE-CARBURETOR Cause
82/C/G C
WEATHER CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARB./INDUCTION SYSTEM ICING Cause
83/B/I B
TERRAIN HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS
64/L/26 L
PILOT IN COMMAND IMPROPER IFR OPERATION

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3604. Source file NTSB_1971_3_3604.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Beyond the agency record

Search this event elsewhere.

Pre-filled searches into the sources where news + community discussion of aviation events lives. External sources are reported, not agency. Treat them as signal that something happened, not as fact about what happened.

TallyAero Live Wire Aviation press

Entity-clustered aviation events in the press — last 24 hr + 30-day archive.

NTSB CAROL Agency ↗

Official agency record + docket.

NTSB Docket Agency ↗

Investigative docket: factual reports, photos, transcripts.

Aviation Safety Network Aviation press ↗

Long-running aviation incident database (Flight Safety Foundation).

Kathryn's Report Aviation press ↗

Community NTSB synthesis blog — often has photos and witness reports.

Aviation Herald Aviation press ↗

Gold-standard aviation incident blog.