FTW94LA222 · Cessna 206E
Horizon Aviation Cessna 206E · Accident: loss of engine power en route
From Ruston Regional Airport (RSN) to David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW94LA222
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 206E
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N4945U
- Operator
- Horizon Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Ruston Regional Airport (RSN), Ruston, LATo David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
AFTER APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR EN ROUTE, THE FLIGHT DESCENDED FROM 4,500 FEET MSL TO 1,500 FEET MSL. AS CRUISE FLIGHT WAS ESTABLISHED, A TOTAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER OCCURRED. THE PILOT SWITCHED FUEL TANKS AND ACTIVATED THE FUEL BOOST PUMP. HE MADE A DECISION THAT HE WAS COMMITTED TO LANDING AND SELECTED A FIELD. DURING THE LANDING SEQUENCE THE AIRPLANE STRUCK A FENCE, FENCE POST, AND TREES. THE LEFT WING SEPARATED FROM THE AIRFRAME. THE AIRPLANE CAME TO REST INVERTED ON A MEASURED 140 DEGREE MAGNETIC HEADING. THE LEFT FUEL TANK INTEGRITY WAS COMPROMISED. FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE RIGHT WING TANK AND THE GASCOLATOR. NO CAUSE FOR THE POWER LOSS WAS DETERMINED.
Probable cause
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER WITH THE CAUSE UNDETERMINED. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW94LA222
- Event ID
- 20001206X01740
- Case number
- FTW94LA222
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: e9129908e93ffeeff54d1e778cc3aea530e5d141aad596b068f0df19dc4b3644; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:57:18.485Z.