# Incident 20110113000779I: Flight Desi CTSW, Cheshire, CT, January 13, 2011

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 13, 2011, 17:00 local time
- Place: Cheshire, CT
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 41.4990° N, 72.9007° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Cheshire, CT, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=41.4990&lon=-72.9007&mi=10
- Aircraft: N858CT, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N858CT) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Flight Design CTSW (registry code 0600001, https://openairdocs.org/model/flight-design-ctsw) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Rotax 912ULS series (registry code 55572, https://openairdocs.org/engine/rotax-912uls-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: FLIGHT DESI CTSW
- Reported engine: ROTAX SEE BOMBADIER
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 700 total, 80 in this make and model, 30 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20110113000779I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

AS STATED BY THE PILOT, HE WAS IN ROUTE FROM NEW BEDFORD REGIONAL AIRPORT (KEWB) TO WATERBURY - OXFORD (OXC), WHILE DESCENDING FROM 6500', THE ENGINE BEGAN TO RUN ROUGH, DUE TO CARBURETOR ICING.  CARBURETOR HEAT WAS APPLIED AND WITHIN FIVE MINUTES THE ENGINE BEGAN TO RUN SMOOTH.  SHORTLY AFTER THE CARBURETOR HEAT WAS TURND OFF THE ENGINE BEGAN TO RUN ROUGH AGAIN.  CARBURETOR HEAT WAS APPLIED AGAIN AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS PUT IN LEVEL FLIGHT.   THE PILOT STATED HE APPLIED POWER AND THE ENGINE STOPPED.  THE PILOT WAS GOING TO TRY AND LAND AT MERIDEN AIPORT (MMK).  WHILE ATTEMPTING TO REACH MMK, THE PILOT  TRIED TO RESTART THE ENGINE.  WHEN THE PILOT REALIZED HE COULD NOT MAKE MMK, HE DECIDED TO MAKE A FORCE LANDING IN A FIELD ADJACENT TO 900 BOULDER ROAD, CHESHIRE CT.  THE PILOT WAS IN COMMUNICATION WITH OXC TOWER.  THE LANDING WAS MADE IN A SNOW COVERED FIELD. THE AIRCRAFT TOUCHED DOWN ON THE MAIN LANDING GEAR AND THEN THE NOSE TOUCHED DOWN .  AFTER THE NOSE MADE CONTACT WITH THE SNOW, THE NOSE GEAR SEPARATED FROM THE AIRCRAFT AND THE AIRCRAFT FLIPPED ON ITS ROOF.  THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED TO STOP AND THE PILOT AND PASSENGER EGRESSED FROM THE AIRCRAFT AND WERE NOT INJURED.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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