# SDR 2025FA0000339

- Type: Service difficulty report (as reported; unverified)
- Difficulty date: April 22, 2025
- Submitted: May 1, 2025
- Operation: General aviation
- Aircraft: [N781FE](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N781FE), registered now
- Make and model: Cessna 208B
- Registry model: [Cessna 208B](https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-208b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Aircraft serial: 208B0278
- Aircraft time: 15,565 hours, 17,587 cycles
- Engine: Pwa PT6A114A
- Engine time: 15,550 hours, 18,594 cycles
- Propeller: Hartzl HCB3T*
- System (JASC): [7200 · Engine (Turbine/Turboprop)](https://openairdocs.org/jasc/7200)
- Part: Engine
- Part number: PT6A114A
- Part serial: PCE17373
- Condition: Failed
- Part time: 15,550 hours, 18,594 cycles
- Stage of operation: AP
- How discovered: O
- Nature of condition: G
- Precautionary procedure: E, A
- FAA source: FAA Service Difficulty Reporting System (https://sdrs.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/sdr/2025FA0000339

## Discrepancy

PILOT REPORTED A CHIP LIGHT ILLUMINATED DURING APPROACH INTO ONT. BEGAN MONITORING PARAMETERS, AND HEARD A POP. OIL PRESSURE DROPPED FROM 101 TO 94 PSI. A FEW MOMENTS LATER SHE HEARD TO MORE POPS, THEN OIL PRESSURE WENT 0 AND ENGINE SHUT DOWN. PILOT DECLARED AN EMEGENCY AND WAS ABLE TO GLIDE THE AIRCRAFT TO BRACKETT AIRFIELD(KPOC) AND LAND ON RUNWAY.

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