ERA15WA275 · Cessna 206G
Cessna 206G · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Coronel E Carvajal Airport (XMS) to Coronel E Carvajal Airport (XMS)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA275
- 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
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 206G
- 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
- HC-CLR
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Coronel E Carvajal Airport (XMS), SantiagoTo Coronel E Carvajal Airport (XMS), Santiago
- 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
- 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 (total)
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On July 19, 2015, about 1515 universal coordinated time, a Cessna 206G, HC-CLR, was destroyed by collision with terrain during a forced landing following a loss of engine power during descent to Edmund Carvajal Airport (XMS), Macas, Santiago, Ecuador. The Ecuadoran certificated pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was descending on the return leg of a sport-parachuting flight after 5 parachutists had exited.
According to investigators, seven minutes after deploying the parachutists at 12,000 feet, the pilot declared an emergency due to a loss of engine power. The airplane was at 9,500 feet, and the pilot announced he would attempt to reach Sucua Airport (SUQ) in Sucua, Ecuador for the forced landing. There were no further communications from the pilot.
The airplane collided with terrain prior to reaching SUQ.
This accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Direccion General De Aviacion Civil of Ecuador. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Direccion General De Aviacion Civil IIC – Senor Jaime Salazar Av: Colon E5-56y La Rabida, Edificio Ave Maria Torre Sur 10mo. Piso P.O. Box 17-01-2077 E-mail: dofezu@gmail.com Fax: 02-2238981
This report is for informational purposes only, and contains only information released by or obtained from the Government of Ecuador.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15WA275
- Event ID
- 20150722X81510
- Case number
- ERA15WA275
- 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 531151a6ed59ad937948654b48aeff9080a9a120072da20c9b4ad82438a543fe; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:33:45.621Z.