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| Date: | Sunday 3 July 2016 |
| Time: | 19:30 |
| Type: |  Cessna P206 Super Skywagon |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N2617X |
| MSN: | P206-0117 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1965 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Incident |
| Location: | Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula, TX -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Parachuting |
| Departure airport: | |
| Investigating agency: | FAA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A fully loaded Cessna P206 skydiving plane had an engine failure and performed a emergency landing on Crystal Beach Sunday evening at 9p.m. The airplane was not damaged and the five occupants onboard were not injured.
Sources:
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/story/32365909/skydiving-plane-crashed-on-crystal-beach_
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/search?updated-max=2016-07-04T19:22:00-04:00&max-results=1&start=12&by-date=false
[LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.asias.faa.gov/pls/apex/f?p=100:96:::::P96_ENTRY_DATE,P96_MAKE_NAME,P96_FATAL_FLG:05-JUL-16,CESSNA]
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?nNumberTxt=2617X
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/170880-28f336c8e8f5ec2e79f9b680b0420933ffde19ae/aircraft/N2617X/sort/votes/page/1
https://www.facebook.com/groups/914404681927100/permalink/1222923837741848/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jul-2016 17:58 | bovine | Added |
| 05-Jul-2016 22:21 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total occupants, Phase, Nature, Source, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 06-Jul-2016 08:14 | Anon. | Updated [Source, ] |
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