| Date: | Friday 1 April 2016 |
| Time: | 09:17 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Owner/operator: | Aéreo Servicios Empresariales |
| Registration: | XA-ULU |
| MSN: | 208B2104 |
| Year of manufacture: | 2009 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4027 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 111 km W of Durango-Guadalupe Victoria Airport (DGO) -
 Mexico
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Tayoltita Airstrip |
| Durango-Guadalupe Victoria Airport (DGO/MMDO) | |
| Investigating agency: | CIDAIA Mexico |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Cessna 208B Grand Caravan was destroyed in a forced landing in a rocky river bed near Tayoltita, San Dimas, Durango, Mexico. Three passengers were killed.
The aircraft operated on a flight from Tayoltita to Durango in Mexico and took off about 09:00 hours local time. About fifteen minutes into the flight, as the aircraft was climbing to 9500 feet, the pilot hear a strange noise from the engine.
The engine lost power and the speed dropped. The pilot then prepared for a forced landing in a river. The left wing hit a tree and the aircraft then impacted very large stones in the bed of the river, causing the aircraft to split two.
PROBABLE CAUSE (translated from Spanish):
Loss of engine power, due to fatigue fracture of a turbine compressor disc blade (CT blade), resulting in an emergency landing.
Contributing Factors:
1. Compressor turbine vane ring rework without the authorization of the engine manufacturer and subsequent installation in the overhaul to the engine.
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