Rusts Flying Service Cessna U206G accident
Cessna U206G · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From King Salmon Airport (AKN) to Lake Hood Seaplane Base (PALH)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC10LA056
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- 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 U206G
- 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
- N4596U
- Operator
- Rusts Flying Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From King Salmon Airport (AKN), King Salmon, AKTo Lake Hood Seaplane Base (PALH), Anchorage, 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 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- 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
- 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
- Loss of engine power (total)
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The float-equipped airplane was in cruise flight on a sightseeing flight when there was a total loss of engine power. After several unsuccessful attempts to restart the engine, the pilot made a forced landing on tundra-covered terrain, and the airplane nosed over. Postaccident disassembly of the engine found that the crankshaft had fractured at the No. 2 journal. Laboratory examination of the crankshaft found "ladder cracking" associated with the journal fracture, which is consistent with a reduced oil flow and overheating of the surface area. At the time of the accident, the engine had 441 hours of operation since major overhaul, which was performed on October 21, 2008.
Probable cause
The total loss of engine power during cruise flight due to a fractured crankshaft.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC10LA056
- Event ID
- 20100630X12540
- Case number
- ANC10LA056
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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 2010-06-30.
- API snapshot SHA-256: eef244f83e76d47fd2a6bed61fc362c5ce90a9f023e534cc253bbff4e9d70082; retrieved 2026-09-15T14:33:42.435Z.