- Date
- December 10, 2025, 06:47 UTC
- Place
- Conroe, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N6058FPiper PA28
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20251210020999A
- Case key
- 202138
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 collision with a deer during takeoff.
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 student pilot was performing a takeoff and during the takeoff roll, the flight instructor saw a deer run onto the runway from right to left. While attempting to avoid the first deer, a second deer collided with the airplane. The deer was struck by the propeller and damaged the left main landing gear. The left main landing gear collapsed, and the airplane skidded to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6058F
- Reported as
- Piper PA28 (181)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28020150
- Built
- 2023
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ameriflyers Of Texas Inc
- Registered owner
- Ameriflyers Of Texas Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CXO · Conroe/North Houston Rgnl, runway 14, 7,501 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Auto-pilot
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
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 2, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,516 total · 1,395 in this make and model · 1,363 as pilot in command · 280 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 1.5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.97 inHg
- Observed at
- KCXO
- METAR
- SPECI KCXO 101232Z AUTO 00000KT 1 1/2SM BR CLR 05/05 A2997 RMK AO2 T00500050=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 13, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.9 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.