# NTSB CEN26FA026: Raytheon G58, N16PV, Carencro, LA, October 21, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 3 · Field · Preliminary report
- Date: October 21, 2025, 11:01 local (16:01 UTC)
- Place: Carencro, LA
- Coordinates: 30.321154, -92.058724 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.3212&lon=-92.0587&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 3 fatal
- Status: Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class: Class 3
- NTSB office: Central Region
- Parties: Textron Aviation, Federal Aviation Administation, Baton Rouge FSDO, Continental Aerospace Technologies
- NTSB case key (mKey): 201903
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN26FA026
- NTSB preliminary report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/201903/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN26FA026

## Preliminary report

On October 21, 2025, at 1101 central daylight time, a Raytheon Aircraft Company G58 airplane, N16PV, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Carencro, Louisiana. The commercial pilot and two passengers sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations as a Part 91 business flight. The flight departed from David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport, Houston, Texas, and was en route to Lafayette Regional Airport/Paul Fournet Field (LFT), Lafayette, Louisiana. About 9 nautical miles northwest of the LFT and 1,300 ft mean sea level, the flight transmitted to air traffic control (ATC) of an unspecified engine issue and requested direct to LFT. ATC provided instructions to proceed direct to runway 11 at LFT after which there were no further transmissions from the airplane. Surveillance video recorded the airplane in a right spin, with a sound consistent with an engine operating, when it impacted terrain. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed the left engine propeller blades exhibited torsional bending and twisting consistent with engine operation. The right engine propeller blades were relatively straight and not feathered. The left and right cockpit propeller controls were in similar and unfeathered positions. The landing gear and wing flaps were retracted. Examination of the flight control system and both engines revealed no mechanical anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [Raytheon G58, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md?model=7150060), [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: [N16PV](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N16PV), registered now, S/N TH-2144, built 2006 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY G58
- Registry model: [Raytheon G58](https://openairdocs.org/model/raytheon-g58) (registry code 7150060) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental IO-550-C](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-c) (registry code 17209, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: TH-2144
- Year built: 2006
- Damage: Destroyed
- Flight: Business, Part 91
- Operator: Align Aviation LLC
- Registered owner: Align Aviation LLC
- Departed: DWH, Houston, TX
- Destination: LFT, Lafeyette, LA

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 219° at 8 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter: 30.08 inHg
- Observed at: LFT, 9 nm away

## 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 20251021016549A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20251021016549A), Oct 21, 2025: Raytheon Aircraft Company G58, Church Point, LA, Destroyed, 3 fatal. At approximately 11:01 local time, on October 21, 2025, the pilot of a Raytheon G58 reported engine problems to ATC, then lost control of the aircraft, and…

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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