CHI83LA236 · Cessna 177B
Cessna 177B · Accident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (ARB)
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI83LA236
- 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 177B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 177
- 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
- N20082
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Ann Arbor Municipal Airport (ARB), Ann Arbor, MI
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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)
- 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
- Ignition system, magneto › Disconnected
- Ignition system, magneto › Failure, total
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, installation, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THE ENG QUIT AT ABOUT 100-200 FT AGL AFTER TAKEOFF. HE EXECUTED A DESCENDING RIGHT TURN TO REMAIN WITHIN THE ARPT BOUNDARY & THE ACFT STRUCK THE GROUND. THE UPPER PORTION OF THE MAGNETO MOUNT FLANGE WAS BROKEN & THE MAGNETO WAS HANGING BY THE IGNITION WIRES. THE MAGNETO UPPER FLANGE HAD A RECTANGULAR WEAR PATTERN CORRESPONDING TO THE MOUNT BLOCK ABOUT 1/8 INCH DEEP. THE FLANGE HAD CRACKED AWAY AT THAT POINT. THE LOWER MOUNT BLOCK & NUT WERE MISSING. IT APPEARED THAT EITHER THE BOTTOM NUT WAS LEFT OFF OR HAD VIBRATED OFF.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI83LA236
- Event ID
- 20001214X43242
- Case number
- CHI83LA236
- 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: 5ad00fe96b87215080ab7c5a96e7c58eea6c03f1fb18c656788d2ad49e7653c1; retrieved 2026-09-21T17:56:04.139Z.