- Date
- July 16, 2026, 12:45 local (18:45 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9398VMooney M20E
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260716008869A
- Case key
- 203425
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9398V
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 700019
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 4,292.7
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 2, 2026 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- KFMM · Fort Morgan, CO
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- APA · Centennial Airport, runway 28, 4,800 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.18 inHg
- Observed at
- KAPA, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAPA 161753Z 11004KT 10SM FEW140 FEW250 28/09 A3018 RMK AO2 SLP132 T02780089 10278 20183 58008 $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.