ENG06WA036 · Cessna 560
Cessna 560 · Incident
From Calgary to an unrecorded destination
Narrative check · The NTSB narrative appears to contradict this record's registration. Values are shown as recorded, not corrected; compare with the narrative.
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG06WA036
- 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
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- 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
- Not recorded
Cessna 560
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 560
- 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
- C-GTGO Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From CalgaryTo not recorded
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe 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
- Not recorded
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Calgary, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On September 13, 2006, a Cessna 560 Citation, registered in Canada as C-GTGO, experienced an undercowl fire in the right engine, a Pratt & Whitney Canada PW535A, while the airplane was descending through 17,000 feet near Calgary, Canada. The pilots reported hearing a loud noise and seeing a flash of light from the right side of the airplane that was followed by a right engine fire warning. The pilot reduced the power to idle and then shut the engine down. The pilot declared an emergency and made a single engine landing without further incident. Examination of the airplane after landing revealed the right engine's upper and lower cowls were missing and there was considerable damage to the vertical stabilizer and right hand horizontal stabilizer.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. This report is for information purposes only and contains information that was released by or obtained from the Government of Canada. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Transportation Safety Board of Canada Place du Centre 200 Promenade du Portage, 4th floor Gatineau, Quebec K1A 1K8 Canada
Telephone: (819) 994-3741
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG06WA036
- Event ID
- 20080506X00604
- Case number
- ENG06WA036
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: df366203635d9b816408799c434c8cdf9795679c4159ed437dcae08f70f38e0f; retrieved 2026-09-22T04:26:32.099Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: registration. The narrative states the airplane was "a Cessna 560 Citation, registered in Canada as C-GTGO".