DFW06LA071 · Hodge Express
Hodge Express · Accident: loss of engine power on approach
From Ward Farms Airport (TN41) to Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR)
Event
- NTSB case
- DFW06LA071
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Hodge Express
- Aircraft type
- Hodge EXPRESS
- 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
- N410MP
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Ward Farms Airport (TN41), Spring City, TNTo Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR), Tyler, TX
- 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
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
An experimental four-place, fixed tricycle gear, single-engine, low-wing airplane, was destroyed during a forced landing, following a loss of engine power. The accident flight occurred when the new owner, who had just purchased the airplane, was ferrying the airplane from the previous owner's airstrip, to his residence on the west coast. During the approach to the airport, the 3,125-hour pilot reduced engine power and the engine lost power. The pilot tried emergency starting procedures with no success. A pilot rated passenger then switched fuel tanks and turned on the electric fuel boost pump. The engine "revved up", but then lost power again. An engine inspection was conducted. The engine had sustained minimum impact damage during the accident. The fuel pump and manifold valve appeared normal. The magnetos produced sparks at all terminals. The sparkplugs had normal wear when compared to the Champion Check-A-Plugs comparison card. Additionally, they had light gray deposits in the electrode area. No abnormalities were found, and a reason for the loss of engine power could not be determined. Additionally, the airplane was equipped with an engine monitor. The monitor recorded and stored various engine parameters from several flights. Information from the engine monitor, failed to show any abnormalities with the engine operation.
Probable cause
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW06LA071
- Event ID
- 20060223X00224
- Case number
- DFW06LA071
- 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, coordinates. 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: f5b93d0f2e93592fe8e40ab0a8bd53ffab7cd8ac64f9c98290123a90bc5c425c; retrieved 2026-09-21T09:00:12.387Z.