CHI90LA163 · Cessna U206
Peoria Scanning Service Cessna U206 · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
From Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (3MY) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI90LA163
- 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 U206
- 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
- N35703
- Operator
- Peoria Scanning Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport (3MY), Peoria, ILTo not recorded
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- 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
- Stall
- 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
- Pilot in command › Reason for occurrence undetermined
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT STATED THAT WHEN SHE REDUCED POWER DURING SHORT FINAL APPROACH FOR THE LANDING, THE ENGINE FAILED COMPLETELY. THE AIRCRAFT IMPACTED THE GROUND ABRUPTLY, APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET FROM THE APPROACH END OF THE LANDING RUNWAY, AND FLIPPED OVER, COMING TO REST INVERTED. POST-ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION/DIFFICULTY WHICH WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER, AND THE ENGINE STARTED AND RAN NORMALLY AT LOW POWER SETTINGS. THE ENGINE WAS RUN AT LOW POWER SETTINGS ONLY DUE TO DAMAGE TO THE PROPELLER, AND A BROKEN ENGINE MOUNT.
Probable cause
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS AND THE INADVERTENT STALL DURING THE FORCED LANDING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI90LA163
- Event ID
- 20001212X23369
- Case number
- CHI90LA163
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1990-06-26.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d5fad0be95acc1272b41492fd74691710b71dcac18acba9da75e3311cf0eb25c; retrieved 2026-09-21T23:50:42.260Z.