CHI83LA130 · Cessna T-210L
Cessna T-210L · Accident: loss of engine power en route
From Denver International Airport (DEN) to Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI83LA130
- 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 T-210L
- Aircraft type
- Cessna T-210
- 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
- N732CJ
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Denver International Airport (DEN), Denver, COTo Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP), Minneapolis, MN
- 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
DURING AN IFR FLIGHT, THE ENGINE LOST POWER AT 4000 FT MSL AND THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO RESTART THE ENGINE. HE BROKE OUT OF THE CLOUDS AT A LOW ALTITUDE IN THE VICINITY OF A LAKE THAT WAS COVERED WITH ICE. THE PILOT DID NOT KNOW THE CONDITION OF THE ICE, SO HE LANDED WITH THE GEAR UP FOR BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE WEIGHT. THE AIRCRAFT SKIDDED OVER THE ICE FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET, THEN BROKE THROUGH. THE DOOR ON THE PILOT'S SIDE WAS JAMMED SHUT; HOWEVER, THE PILOT HAD PREVIOUSLY INSTRUCTED THE PASSENGER TO OPEN THE OTHER DOOR. THE COCKPIT BEGAN TO FILL WITH WATER, SO THE PILOT AND PASSENGER CLIMBED ON TOP OF THE PLANE AND WAITED FOR HELP. AN INVESTIGATION REVEALED NO PREIMPACT, MECHANICAL FAILURES. IT OPERATED TO 2000 RPM DURING AN ENG RUN-UP.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI83LA130
- Event ID
- 20001214X42362
- Case number
- CHI83LA130
- 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: 6df33455eb3269d92352abb0c69acbe46cd6ab64834a32672e0cb64b973d3909; retrieved 2026-09-23T22:54:16.745Z.