CEN16WA340 · Quad City CHALLENGER II
Quad City CHALLENGER II · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) during takeoff
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN16WA340
- 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
- 1 · 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Quad City CHALLENGER II
- Aircraft type
- Quad City CHALLENGER
- 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-IIJW
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 7 years (built 2009)
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Amos, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On August 9, 2016, at 1530 UTC, a Quad City Challenger II (S/N CH2-0903-2368), C-IIJW, impacted terrain near the runway end at Amos/Magny Airport (CYEY), Amos, Quebec, Canada. The aircraft was destroyed and sole occupant on board was fatally injured. The aircraft was enroute to La Sarre Airport (CSR8), La Sarre, Quebec, Canada.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction and control of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB Canada). Under the provisions of Annex 13 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation as a State of Design, the United States has designated an accredited representative to participate in the investigation. Any further information may be obtained from:
TSB Canada
Place du Centre
200 Promenade du Portage
4th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec
Canada K1A 1K8
Telephone: (8190 994-3741
Fax: (819) 953-9586
E-mail: airops@tsb.bst.gc.ca
Investigator-in-Charge
Ms. Isabelle Langevin
Telephone: (514) 633-2948
E-mail: isabelle.langevin@tsb-bst.gc.ca
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the TSB Canada.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN16WA340
- Event ID
- 20160830X93322
- Case number
- CEN16WA340
- 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: 68f987837c3c71bfbafe5b36615870c31e29416a6e5b8e2231fd2f792f0847d9; retrieved 2026-09-14T21:59:17.780Z.