Cessna 182Q N759MN

Summary

On 14 August 1989 at about 10:04 local time, a Cessna 182Q registered N759MN was involved in an accident near Edison Twshp, New Jersey, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

14 August 1989 at 10:04

Classification

Accident

Location

Edison Twshp, New Jersey, United States

Nearest airport

Linden (LDJ)

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 182Q

Registration

N759MN

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Business

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Dunkirk → Linden

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Dawn

NTSB number

NYC89FA190

1 person died.

FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW THE IFR PROCEDURE AND MAINTAIN THE MINIMUM DESCENT ALTITUDE (MDA) FOR THAT SEGMENT OF THE APPROACH. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: MINIMUM SAFE ALTITUDE WARNING (MSAW) RADAR NOT ENABLED, AND FAILURE OF THE APPROACH CONTROLLER TO PROVIDE A SAFETY ADVISORY.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

DRG ARR, THE FLT WAS VCTRD FOR AN NDB-B APCH TO THE LINDEN ARPT. AT THAT TIME, WX AT NEWARK, NJ, WAS RPRTD AS PARTIALLY OBSCD, 400' SCT, 15,000 SCT, VIS 1 MI WITH FOG, TEMP & DEW POINT 71 DEG, WND FM 220 DEG AT 3 KTS, ALTIMETER 30.09' HG. THERE WAS NO WX RPRT FOR LINDEN, BUT A PLT, WHO LNDD EARLIER, RPRTD HE HAD THE ARPT IN SITE ABT 8 MI OUT, THOUGH THERE WAS GROUND FOG. AT 0559:50, BEFORE RCHG THE FINAL APCH FIX (FAF), THE PLT (OF N759MN) WAS CLRD FOR THE APCH. AT 0600:45, RADAR SVC WAS TRMTD & THE PLT WAS CLRD TO CHG TO ADZY FREQ. SUBSEQUENTLY, THE ACFT HIT THE TOP OF A 75' TREE & CRASHED JUST SHORT OF THE FAF. A WITNESS RPRTD THAT JUST BFR THE ACDNT, THE ACFT APPEARED TO 'POP OUT' OF A CLOUD AT ABT 100' AGL IN A DSCNT. MIN DSCNT ALT (MDA) FOR THAT SEGMENT OF THE APCH WAS 2000'; MDA FOR FINAL APCH WAS 640'; ELEV OF THE CRASH SITE WAS ABT 220'. RADAR DATA SHOWED THAT THE ACFT HAD DSCNDD TO 1800' AT 0559:59, THEN WAS AT 1300' AT 0600:46. THE CONTROLLER DID NOT ENABLE THE MIN SAFE ALT WARNING (MSAW) SYS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.