DEN87LA241 · Cessna TU206G
Scenic Aviation Cessna TU206G · Accident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) en route
From Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG) to Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
Event
- NTSB case
- DEN87LA241
- 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 TU206G
- 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
- N756HD
- Operator
- Scenic Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Blanding Municipal Airport (BDG), Blanding, UTTo Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), Salt Lake City, UT
- 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
- Total 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
- 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
- Engine assembly, piston › Failure, total
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WHILE CRUISING AT 10,500 FT WITH THE POWER SET AT 28 INCHES MAP & 2350 RPM, THE ENG SUDDENLY LOST PWR & BEGAN KNOCKING. THE PLT NOTED A RAPID DROP IN OIL PRESSURE & SAW A 3-INCH HOLE IN THE TOP OF THE ENG COWLING. HE ATTEMPTED TO LAND ON A HIGHWAY, BUT WAS UNABLE DUE TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SO HE CHANGED HIS APCH TO LAND BESIDE THE ROADWAY. JUST BFR LANDING, HE SAW POWERLINES & PULLED UP TO AVOID A COLLISION. THE ACFT THEN ENTERED A HIGH SINK RATE (STALLED). THE PILOT STATED THE ACFT 'IMPACTED THE GROUND IN A FLAT, RATHER NOSE LOW ATTITUDE.' THE ACFT BEGAN BURNING IMMEDIATELY AFTER IMPACT, BUT THE PLT EXITED THE PLANE WITHOUT INJURY. A TEARDOWN OF THE ENG REVEALED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE OF THE #2 PISTON AND WRIST PIN, BUT THE INVESTIGATION DID NOT DETERMINE WHICH HAD FAILED 1ST. THE ENGINE HAD BEEN OVERHAULED ON 6/5/84, USINGSEVERAL COMPONENTS (INCLUDING PISTONS & PISTON PINS) MANUFACTURED BY SUPERIOR AIR PARTS, INC. ACCORDING TO MAINTENANCE LOGS, THE ACFT HAD FLOWN 1045 HRS SINCE MAJOR OVERHAUL OF THE ENG.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DEN87LA241
- Event ID
- 20001213X32066
- Case number
- DEN87LA241
- 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: 0cee1c90e01ce9e94070e957183eaf831784de7fb7b90ff3b98cf55c5ffa4c79; retrieved 2026-09-23T12:04:06.219Z.