# NTSB CEN25FA052: Cozy MK III, N51810, Mineola, TX, November 28, 2024

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Field · Preliminary report
- Date: November 27, 2024, 18:30 local (Nov 28, 2024, 00:30 UTC)
- Place: Mineola, TX
- Coordinates: 32.61231, -95.537738
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=32.6123&lon=-95.5377&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal
- Status: Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Parties: FAA
- NTSB case key (mKey): 195557
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN25FA052
- NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/195557/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN25FA052

## Preliminary report

On November 27, 2024, about 18:30 central standard time, a Cozy Mark III, N51810 was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Mineola, Texas. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The flight was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The airplane departed Houston Southwest Airport (AXH), Houston, Texas, about 1720. The pilot was on a visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan and received VFR flight following while en route to his destination airport, Cox Field Airport (PRX), Paris, Texas. The airplane impacted a densely forested area about 60 nm south of PRX. Branches on trees, about 40 ft southeast of the impact site, exhibited 45° angle cuts and some branches had a broom-straw like appearance. A propeller blade was found under one of the trees with the damaged branches. There was a large crater about 7 ft in diameter and 3 ft deep, northeast of the damaged trees, that contained the engine and remainder of the propeller, still attached at the flange. The debris field fanned out about 45 ft in a circle from the crater. The majority of the debris field was on a heading of about 150°. The debris field consisted of both vertical stabilizers, both rudders, pieces of the nose canard, left and right navigation lights, left and right ailerons, pieces of both wings, pieces of the acrylic canopy, and main landing gear. Blue Styrofoam and small pieces of fiberglass were scattered throughout the area. The right navigation light was crushed, but the left navigation light was not damaged. Although heavily fragmented, all four corners of the airplane, including the nose canard, were identified at the scene. The airplane wreckage and engine were retained for further examination.

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Enroute-cruise: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000) (defining event); cases with it: [Madison Richard COZY, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md?model=05612RD), [All aircraft, 1,703 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N51810](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N51810), registered now, S/N 224 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: Cozy MK III (NO SERIES)
- Registry model: [Madison Richard COZY](https://openairdocs.org/model/madison-richard-cozy) (registry code 05612RD) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Lycoming O-320-D2J](https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-o-320-d2j) (registry code 41595, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number: 224
- Year built: 1988
- Airframe hours: 712
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Personal, Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate: Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection: Condition, November 25, 2024
- Departed: AXH, Houston, TX
- Destination: PRX, Paris, TX
- Flight plan: VFR
- Equipment: ADS-B

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Night
- Wind: 210° at 7 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 72 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter: 29.73 inHg
- Observed at: KTYR, 17 nm away
- METAR: KTYR 272353Z 21007KT 10SM CLR 22/15 A2973

## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20241127022119A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20241127022119A), Nov 27, 2024: Madison Richard COZY, Destroyed, 2 fatal. On November 27, 2024, at approximately 1828 pm central daylight time (CST), a Cozy, [privacy data omitted], took off from sugar land regional airport (sgr)…

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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