# Accident 20260423011549A: Cirrus Design Corp SR22T, Chanute, KS, April 23, 2026

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 23, 2026, 14:30 local time
- Place: Chanute, KS
- Airport: Chanute Martin Johnson
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Descent
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.7178° N, 95.4786° W: From the FAA
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.7178&lon=-95.4786&mi=10
- Aircraft: N39VF, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N39VF) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cirrus Design SR22T (registry code 2130004, https://openairdocs.org/model/cirrus-design-sr22t) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental TSIO-550-K (registry code 17410, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-550-k) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR22T
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR TSIO-550-K
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 2
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 1,959 total
- NTSB investigation: [NTSB CEN26LA173](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26LA173) (OpenAirDocs)
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20260423011549A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

FLIGHT ORIGINATED IN HENDERSON, NV AND FLYING TO KNOXVILLE, TN USING VFR FLIGHT FOLLOWING. FIRST FUEL STOP WAS C08 AND FILLED TANK FULL TO 92 GAL. TOOK OFF TO DESTINATION SIKESTON, MO FOR A FINAL FUEL STOP BEFORE KNOXVILLE.

CRUSING AT 17,500 WITH NORMAL ENGINE READINGS WHEN THE MANIFOLD PRESSURE WENT FROM APPROXIMATELY 30.5 TO 14 PSIG. PILOT REPORTED THUMPING AND BANGING COMING FROM ENGINE BAY. STARTED LOSING OIL PRESSURE BUT CHT AND EGT STILL LOOKED OK. DUE TO FAST LOSS OF OIL PRESSURE, PILOT SHUT DOWN ENGINE BY TURNING FUEL SELECTOR OFF, PULLING THROTTLE TO IDLE, AND PULLING MIXTURE KNOB. PILOT SELECTED CNU/CHANUTE, KS FOR AN EMERGENCY LANDING. METAR REPORTEDE MVFR CONDITIONS WITH CLOUD LAYER AT APPROX 2,200 AND WIND APPROX 35K AT 180 DEGREES. PILOT FOLLOWED ATC VECTORS FOR RUNWAY 18 AT CHANUTE.

AFTER BREAKING CLOUD LAYER, PILOT REALIZED THEY WERE UNABLE TO MAKE THE RUNWAY. PILOT AVOIDED HIGH-TENSION POWER LINES BY TURNING 90 DEGREES LEFT AND THEN PULLED CIRRUS AUTOMATIC PARACHUTE SYSTEM (CAPS) HANDLE. AIRCRAFT CLEARED THE POWER LINES AND HIT THE GROUND HARD.

PLANE WAS LEVEL SHORTLY BEFORE WIND FLIPPED PLANE UPSIDE DOWN AND DRAGGED IT TO THE END OF THE FIRST FIELD. AIRCRAFT HIT A TREE. THIS STOOD THE PLANE ON IT'S NOSE. PILOT TRIED TO GET OUT, BUT ANOTHER WIND GUST PULLED THE PLANE THROUGH THE ROW OF TREES AND FLIPPED IT UPRIGHT FACING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. COPILOT SAW THE FRONT CAPS LINE AND PILOT / COPILOT TRIED TO CUT THE STRAPS. AFTER FRONT STRAPS WERE CUT, ANOTHER GUST OF WIND PULLED THE AIRCRAFT ACROSS THE SECOND FIELD. PILOT EGRESSED ONTO THE WING AND SLIPPED. PILOT FELL IN THE DIRECTION THE PLANE WAS MOVING AND DRAGGED UNDERNEATH THE WING. PILOT LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AT THIS POINT. COPILOT EGRESSED ONTO WING AND A PICK-UP TRUCK DROVE UP FROM THE NEARBY HIGHWAY AND PULLED IN FRONT OF THE PATH OF THE PLANE. THE PLANE HIT THE TRUCK AND THE COPILOT FELL OFF THE WING.

ANOTHER GUST OF WIND LIFTED THE PLANE OVER THE TRUCK AND THE AIRCRAFT FINALLY LANDED IN A GROVE OF TREES ACROSS THE HIGHWAY WHERE IT CAME TO REST.

## The NTSB's investigation of this event (1)

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- [NTSB CEN26LA173](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26LA173), Apr 23, 2026: Cirrus Design SR22T (N39VF), Chanute, KS, substantial damage, investigation ongoing

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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