ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 227864
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| Date: | Saturday 3 August 2019 |
| Time: | 09:00 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna A185E Skywagon |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N5806J |
| MSN: | 18501775 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 1541 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental IO-520-D |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Richland Township, Saginaw County, MI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Flint-Bishop Airport, MI (FNT/KFNT) |
| Beaver Island Airport, MI (KSJX) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot was in cruise flight in a single-engine airplane when the engine lost power. He selected a road for the forced landing, during which the airplane impacted a power pole and electrical wires. The airplane came to rest inverted and incurred substantial damage to the airplane's fuselage and wings.
Postaccident examination revealed that the engine's crankshaft had failed due to fatigue.
The accident crankshaft was subject to a mandatory service bulletin (MSB) and subsequent Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive (AD) requiring inspection of the crankshaft material for metallurgical anomalies; however, this inspection was not performed on the accident airplane's crankshaft.
A detailed metallurgical examination of the crankshaft revealed that a fatigue crack had progressed through most of the crankshaft web cross section, consistent with relatively low-stress, high cycle fatigue. Because no indications of intergranular fracture or large areas of overstress fracture with the planar dimpled rupture features indicative of thermal damage on the fracture surface were noted, it is unlikely that manufacturing issues resulted in the fatigue cracking even though metallurgical testing revealed that the crankshaft material did not meet specification. Rather, the cracking likely initiated due to stray or excessive wear to the forward journal to web radius. It is further likely that a misalignment during a previous reassembly of the engine that occurred about two years prior when two cylinders were replaced resulted in the failure.
Given this information, it is likely that maintenance personnel's failure to properly align the affected crankshaft during the reassembly resulted in a low-stress high cycle fatigue failure of the crankshaft and the subsequent loss of all engine power.
Probable Cause: Maintenance personnel's failure to properly align the crankshaft during an engine reassembly which led to a fatigue failure of the crankshaft and the loss of all engine power.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CEN19LA249
FAA register: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=5806J
Location
Media:
4 injured in plane crash in Saginaw County https://t.co/OJctPJL88u
— Raise ur Right Hand (@RaiseURH) August 3, 2019
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Aug-2019 15:46 | Geno | Added |
| 03-Aug-2019 17:03 | Captain Adam | Updated [Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Aug-2019 19:55 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Aug-2019 19:57 | Geno | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 03-Aug-2019 20:21 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Aug-2019 16:55 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 04-Aug-2019 16:57 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Embed code] |
| 02-Jul-2022 07:13 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
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