- Date
- December 5, 1982, 15:25 local (20:25 UTC)
- Place
- Rocky Hill, NJ
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2366RCessna 182G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 5, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821205062229A
- Case key
- 72418
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Hard landing
Airspeed - misjudgedCause
Distance - misjudgedCause
Level off - improperCause
Recovery from bounced landing - improperCause
In flight collision with object
Aborted landing - performed
Object - tree(s)Factor
Go-around - delayedCause
Analysis
The acft touched down on the last third of the rwy, made a series of bounces followed by a go-around at which time the acft collided with several tree tops & crashed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2366R
- Reported as
- Cessna 182G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18255466
- Airframe hours
- 1,528
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, 265 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bruce Williams
- Registered owner
- Bruce Williams
- Departed
- Rocky Hill, NJ
- Destination
- Rocky Hill, NJ
- Airport
- Princeton, runway 28, 3,198 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 750 total · 8 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.