- Date
- March 20, 1983, 18:59 local (23:59 UTC)
- Place
- New Haven, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N121RJCessna T210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830320008689A
- Case key
- 35162
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.
Analysis
According to an FAA interview, while on approach the plt did not identify the runway lights properly and landed to the left of the edge lights to runway 34. The acft landed off the runway in soft turf and the nose gear collapsed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N121RJ
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- John Foster Place
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HPN · White Plains, NY
- Destination
- HVN · New Haven, CT
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HVN · New Haven
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
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.