- Date
- June 22, 2025, 19:18 local (Jun 23, 2025, 00:18 UTC)
- Place
- Charleston, MO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N114WLAir Tractor AT-502B
- Defining event
- Maneuvering-low-alt flying: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA - St. Louis FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250622010019A
- Case key
- 200378
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of control during the spray pass, which resulted in impact with vegetation and terrain.
Findings · 1
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The pilot reported that during a spray pass to a field, the airplane started to “drop”. The pilot was not able to recover from the descent with the addition of power and impacted vegetation and terrain. During the impact sequence, the engine separated from the fuselage. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and both wings. The pilot and operator reported no mechanical issues with the airframe or engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N114WL
- Reported as
- Air Tractor AT-502B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 502B-2960
- Built
- 2014
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34AG, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Operator
- Thompson Flying Service LLC
- Registered owner
- Thompson Flying Service LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Airport
- CHQ · Mississippi County, runway 18/36, 3,196 × 60 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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 23, 2024
- Seat
- Center
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,524 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,481 as pilot in command · 300 in the last 90 days · 150 in the last 30 days · 12 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.11 inHg
- Observed at
- KCIR, 15 nm away
- METAR
- KCIR 230035Z AUTO 19004KT 10SM CLR 32/24 A3011 RMK AO2 T03210236
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 2, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.8 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.