Sedgwick County and Wichita emergency workers investigate the scene of a plane crash Tuesday morning, Nov. 6, 2012, south of Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kan. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman says the pilot of the Cessna reported engine trouble shortly after taking off from the airport and the pilot was trying to return to the airport when the crash occurred about two miles from the airport. FAA records show the plane was registered to Fed Ex Corp. The pilot was killed in the accident.

Records of a fatal 2012 plane crash near Wichita indicate a part that broke inside the aircraft’s engine was the likely reason the Cessna Caravan went down.

The Wichita Eagle reports the probable cause statement from the Nov. 6, 2012, accident was posted online Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board.

The crash killed 52-year-old pilot Brian P. Quinn, of Lawrence, who told air traffic controllers soon after taking off from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport that he had lost engine power and was trying to return to the airport.

His final transmission, eight minutes after takeoff, said he was going to land in a grass field. He was killed when the plane touched down in a field of winter wheat and rolled into a tree row and struck a tree.