FTW93FA251 · Cessna 182C
Cessna 182C · Accident: partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure) during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Marion County Regional Airport (FLP)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW93FA251
- 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
- 3 · 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 182C
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- 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
- N8488T
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Marion County Regional Airport (FLP), Flippin, AR
- 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
- Takeoff · roll/run
- 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
- Partial loss of engine power (mechanical failure)
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DURING TAXI, WITNESSES OBSERVED BLACK SMOKE COMING FROM THE EXHAUST. THEY ALSO SAID THE ENGINE STARTED TO LOSE POWER DURING THE TAKEOFF GROUND RUN. THE AIRPLANE LIFTED OFF THE RUNWAY ABOUT MIDFIELD; THE ENGINE WAS STILL RUNNING ROUGH & MISSING, AND THE AIRPLANE WAS NOT CLIMBING WELL. THEY OBSERVED THE LANDING GEAR AND LOWER FUSELAGE STRIKE THE TREES. METALLURGICAL EXAMINATION REVEALED THAT THE RIGHT CONE BAFFLE OF THE MUFFLER SEPARATED DUE TO OXIDATION. FRACTURING MODE WAS MOST PROBABLY PROGRESSIVE IN NATURE, AND THE CONE HAD SEPARATED AT SOME POINT PRIOR. HOWEVER, THE MODE OF FRACTURING COULD NOT BE DETERMINED DUE TO THE OXIDATION. THE END PLATES AND INLET TUBES OF THE MUFFLER EXHIBITED DEFORMATION AND THEY DID NOT CONFORM TO THE MANUFACTURER'S SPECIFICATION. EXAMINATION OF THE ENGINE AND PROPELLER NOT DESTROYED BY THE POST CRASH FIRE DID NOT REVEAL ANY ADDITIONAL ANOMALIES.
Probable cause
PARTIAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WHICH MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED WERE THE DISTORTED AND SEPARATED MUFFLER COMPONENTS RESULTING FROM IMPROPER MAINTENANCE BY AN UNKNOWN PERSON.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW93FA251
- Event ID
- 20001211X13392
- Case number
- FTW93FA251
- 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: 71a18f87451011303a3efd083be2b7cb4acdb6e18e9b227d80eff571aae06dd0; retrieved 2026-09-21T00:24:10.637Z.