ANC06LA144 · Cessna TU206A
Cessna TU206A · Accident: total loss of engine power (mechanical failure) en route
From Cordova Municipal Airport (CKU) to Juneau Harbor Seaplane Base (5Z1)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC06LA144
- 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
Cessna TU206A
- 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
- N206AK
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Cordova Municipal Airport (CKU), Cordova Seaplan, AKTo Juneau Harbor Seaplane Base (5Z1), Juneau, AK
- 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)
- 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
- Engine assembly, cylinder › Separation
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The commercial certificated pilot was on a cross-country positioning flight under Title 14, CFR Part 91, in a float-equipped airplane, when the number 6 engine cylinder separated from the engine through the engine cowling. The pilot made a hard emergency landing in steep ocean swells, and was able to beach the airplane. The airplane received structural damage to the wings and fuselage during the landing. An examination of the eight studs holding the number 6 cylinder to the engine case, revealed they were either broken or their threads were stripped. An examination of maintenance logbooks did not reveal any unresolved preaccident mechanical anomalies.
Probable cause
The separation of the number 6 cylinder assembly from the engine during cruise flight, which resulted in a hard forced landing in rough ocean swells. A factor contributing to the accident was the rough ocean swells.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC06LA144
- Event ID
- 20061019X01541
- Case number
- ANC06LA144
- 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, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2006-10-01.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 785a14afa49a3744c96c0c5200c8310f45365a44b6613cc8c54038a75d6e3634; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:23:10.505Z.