- Date
- September 18, 2025, 13:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Oxford, MS
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N318JMPiper PA-32R-301
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 9, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250918014479A
- Case key
- 201047
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Probable cause
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the initial takeoff climb, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
Findings · 2
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 conducted a normal pre-flight inspection and engine run-up. According to the pilot, after taking off from the runway, the airplane started drifting to the right and did not gain as much altitude as expected. The pilot attempted to correct the drift, but the airplane impacted the ground and slid into trees resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage, stabilator, and both wings. The pilot stated that he likely stalled the airplane. Airport surveillance video depicted the airplane during the takeoff. The airplane’s pitch attitude increased as it rotated and climbed from the runway to about 100 ft above ground level. The airplane appeared to have maintained a nose-high attitude as it descended into terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N318JM
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R-301
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32R-8313021
- Built
- 1982
- Airframe hours
- 5,326.9
- Engine
- Lycoming Engines IO-540-K1G5D, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- N318jm LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · March 15, 2025
- Departed
- KUOX · Oxford, MS
- Destination
- PLK · Branson, MO
- Airport
- UOX · University-Oxford, runway 09/27, 5,600 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 68
- Injuries
- Serious
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 18, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 203 total · 48 in this make and model · 75 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Observed at
- KUOX
- METAR
- KUOX 181815Z AUTO 15005KT 10SM FEW065 32/16 A3003 RMK AO2 PWINO,M
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 22.0 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.