CHI88DEP07 · Cessna 182B
Cessna 182B · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From East Troy Municipal Airport (57C) to C52 · Burlington, WI
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI88DEP07
- 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 182B
- 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
- N2486G
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From East Troy Municipal Airport (57C), East Troy, WITo C52 · Burlington, WI
- 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 · descent
- 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
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- 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
- Fuel system, carburetor › Ice
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
DRG A NORMAL DSCNT, IN PREPARATION TO LAND, THE ENG LOST ALL POWER. THE PLT MADE AN EMERG LANDING, BUT DRG THE LANDING ROLL-OUT, THE NOSEWHEEL ENCTRD SOFT, UNEVEN TERRAIN & THE ACFT NOSED OVER. NO FUEL WAS FOUND IN THE FUEL TANKS OR CARBURETOR FLOAT BOWL, BUT VEGETATION BELOW THE VENTED CAPS WAS DISCOLORED, INDICATING FUEL HAD DRAINED OUT. WHEN THE ENG WAS EXAMINED, NO REASON WAS FOUND FOR THE POWER LOSS. DUE TO DAMAGE, AN ENG RUN-UP WAS NOT ATMTD. THE TEMP & DUE POINT WERE 69 & 61 DEG, RESPECTIVELY. ACCORDING TO ICING PROBABILITY CHARTS, SERIOUS CARBURETOR ICING COULD HAVE OCCURRED AT GLIDE POWER. THE CARBURETOR AIR BOX WAS DAMAGED DRG THE ACDNT; THEREFORE, ITS PREIMPACT CONDITION COULD NOT BE DETERMINED. THE CARBURETOR HEAT CONTROL WAS FOUND IN THE 'ON' POSITION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI88DEP07
- Event ID
- 20001213X26148
- Case number
- CHI88DEP07
- 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 1988-07-22.
- API snapshot SHA-256: a315acca9cdc6de68e52be09d33f60bc8b41d8a90b61d587474b8ffd315cc590; retrieved 2026-09-23T09:30:47.796Z.