- Date
- March 29, 1992, 13:05 local (18:05 UTC)
- Place
- Lafayette, TN
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9679GCessna U206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920329007669A
- Case key
- 8581
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspections which resulted in oil starvation and eventual failure of the engine. A factor was the rough terrain where the airplane was force landed.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilot had rented the airplane for several days. During the accident flight, while descending to land, the engine oversped. It was controlled by reducing the throttle. Shortly afterwards smoke was noted outside of the airplane and in the cabin. The engine then quit. A forced landing was made to rough terrain which resulted in substantial damage. Engine disassembly revealed damage consistent with oil starvation. 1.5 qts of the normal 13 qts of oil were drained from the engine. No oil was found on the engine nor the fuselage, externally. During the nine days and 22 hours the airplane was rented by the pilot, there was no evidence that any oil was added to the engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9679G
- Reported as
- Cessna U206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20603823
- Airframe hours
- 2,906
- Engine
- Continental IO-520F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Buckner Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Buckner Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 1991 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- MCN · Macon, GA
- Destination
- BWG · Bowling Green, KY
- Flight plan
- IFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 852 total · 22 in this make and model · 811 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 22 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 35 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.