Wright Air Service Textron Aviation Inc 208B accident
Textron Aviation Inc 208B · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) en route
From Coldfoot Airport (CXF) to Anaktuvuk Pass Airport (AKP)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC26LA062
- 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
- Ongoing
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
Textron Aviation Inc 208B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- 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
- N94AW
- Operator
- Wright Air Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Coldfoot Airport (CXF), Cold Foot, AKTo Anaktuvuk Pass Airport (AKP), Anaktuvuk, AK
- Aircraft age
- About 7 years (built 2019)
- 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 (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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On June 22, 2026, about 1043 Alaska standard time, a turbine-powered Cessna 208B airplane N94AW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Wiseman, Alaska. The nine passengers were uninjured, the pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135, scheduled commuter flight. The pilot reported that, approximately 15 minutes after departing Coldfoot Airport (CXF), Coldfoot, Alaska, en route to Anaktuvuk Pass Airport (AKP), Anaktuvuk, Alaska, he heard a loud whining noise. Concerned about the source of the noise, he elected to return to CXF. Shortly after turning back, the propeller RPM began surging, engine indications appeared normal. The whining noise and RPM surging continued for approximately five minutes; the whining noise then ceased, but the surging persisted. The pilot reported that the surging appeared to stop only after the engine and propeller RPM decreased. As engine power continued to deteriorate, the engine remained operational but produced only low power. The pilot attempted to feather the propeller; initially, it appeared that the propeller was responding, but it failed to fully feather. Unable to maintain altitude, the pilot selected a brush-covered riverbed as a forced-landing site. During the landing roll over the rough and uneven terrain, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the left wing struck the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing and fuselage. Following the forced landing, the pilot attempted to shut down the engine using the emergency engine shutdown procedures. However, despite completing those procedures, the engine continued operating for approximately two minutes, including after all ten occupants had evacuated the aircraft. The wreckage is being recovered and will be transported to a secure location, and a detailed National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) postaccident wreckage examination is pending. The airplane was manufactured in 2019 and was equipped with a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-140 turboprop engine and a Hartzell three-bladed controllable-pitch propeller.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC26LA062
- Event ID
- 20260622203219
- Case number
- ANC26LA062
- 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, coordinates. 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: 8ff712660e41d8c70bea4984565befb0d102f44c4d2c8d12e20cbee20b7397b9; retrieved 2026-09-17T05:11:38.650Z.