ERA14LA389 · Cessna T206H
Cessna T206H · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) en route
From North Texas Regional Airport Perrin Field (GYI) to Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA14LA389
- 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 T206H
- 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
- N1229M
- Operator
- Jeff Bramblett
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From North Texas Regional Airport Perrin Field (GYI), Sherman, TXTo Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB), Daytona Beach, FL
- Aircraft age
- About 7 years (built 2007)
- 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 · descent
- 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 (partial)
- 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 as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
As the pilot leveled the airplane at 2,500 ft mean sea level during the descent for landing, he advanced the throttle but observed no response from the engine. He could not restore engine power; however, the propeller continued to spin. He noted that the throttle "felt very loose" when he attempted to add power. The airplane was unable to maintain altitude, so the pilot performed a forced landing in a field. The airplane collided with trees before coming to rest in the field, which resulted in structural damage to the airframe and minor injuries to the occupants.
During a postaccident examination of the airframe and engine, the portion of the engine throttle cable that was normally clamped just forward of the upper right engine firewall was found forward of and unclamped from its clamping device. Examination of the remainder of the wreckage did not reveal evidence of a mechanical malfunction or failure. It is likely that the throttle cable became unsecured during the flight and led to the lack of throttle response reported by the pilot.
Probable cause
A loosening of the engine throttle cable from its support clamp during flight, which resulted in a loss of throttle control.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA14LA389
- Event ID
- 20140815X30452
- Case number
- ERA14LA389
- 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: 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: 30b02bf5af43f9cb94c26da923841b369886b7a57bb8dbfbb5f3f84989f48994; retrieved 2026-09-16T01:38:55.119Z.