- Date
- April 23, 1983, 14:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Ashley Falls, MA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N86948Bellanca 8KCAB
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830423015719A
- Case key
- 35175
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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
The pilot stated that he was about a half mile from the airport when the engine quit. He restarted it but it quit a 2nd time and would not restart. By this time the acft was down to about 200 ft. a right turn was made to land on an island. The acft landed short in about 2 ft of water and nosed over. The mixture control cable was found not secured allowing it to move to idle cut off.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86948
- Reported as
- Bellanca 8KCAB
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 147-74
- Airframe hours
- 43
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-320-E1A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Stanley J. Segalla
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 12, 1982 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- CT24 · No. Canaan, CT
- Airport
- CT24 · No. Canaan, runway 3, 3,100 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 58
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
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.