- Date
- March 5, 1990, 19:00 local (Mar 6, 1990, 02:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wright, WY
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N812FECessna 208A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900305042359I
- Case key
- 17851
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Probable cause
The incident was engine failure due to gas producer turbine disc blade failure caused by stress rupture.
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
While in climb to cruise the engine failed and the pilot conducted an emergency descent to a successful landing on a highway. The aircraft sustained no damage as a result of the landing and damage was limited to the internal portions of the engine. Investigation revealed the engine failed due to stress rupture of gas producer turbine disc blades. This failure is due to engine overheat. When the overheat occurred could not be determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N812FE
- Reported as
- Cessna 208A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20800040
- Airframe hours
- 4,757
- Engine
- P&W PT6A-114, 600 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Corporate Air Inc., doing business as Federal Express
- Registered owner
- Federal Express, Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · February 14, 1990 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- GCC · Gillette, WY
- Destination
- DEN · Denver, CO
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- NONE
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 8,500 total · 500 in this make and model · 8,400 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 20° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GCC, 37 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.