diff --git a/changelogs/netconf_reset_connection.yaml b/changelogs/netconf_reset_connection.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..199b1f977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/netconf_reset_connection.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - "Connection can be lost from control plane reset or device restart. meta:
+    reset_connection task will attempt to send a session_close RPC to a dead
+    connection and ncclient will raise an exception preventing the connection
+    socket_path from being closed out.
+    (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.netcommon/issues/348)"
diff --git a/plugins/connection/netconf.py b/plugins/connection/netconf.py
index 0fc3184e0..0c8b54def 100644
--- a/plugins/connection/netconf.py
+++ b/plugins/connection/netconf.py
@@ -430,6 +430,6 @@ def _connect(self):
         )
 
     def close(self):
-        if self._manager:
+        if self._manager and self._manager.connected:
             self._manager.close_session()
         super(Connection, self).close()