- Date
- February 5, 2026, 12:41 local (18:41 UTC)
- Place
- Crockett, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N313BPSocata TBM 700
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Collision with terr/obj (non-CFIT)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 19, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration, Houston FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260205002679A
- Case key
- 202419
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 failure to maintain airplane control during a go-around that resulted in a collision with 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 stated that he performed a visual approach and landing at the destination airport with wing flaps fully extended. As the airplane crossed the runway threshold and with the airplane in ground effect, he reduced engine power to idle. When the airplane was about to touch down, it ballooned upward about 20 to 30 ft, and the pilot then initiated a go-around using full engine power with the landing gear extended and without reducing the flap setting. During the go-around, the stall warning sounded as the airplane drifted left and away from the runway. The airplane impacted the ground and was destroyed by post-crash fire. The pilot stated there was no mechanical malfunction/failure of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N313BP
- Reported as
- Socata TBM 700
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 434
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 1,529
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-66D, 850 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dm Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2025
- Departed
- TME · Houston, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- DKR · Houston County Airport, runway 2, 4,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Data recorder
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
- 46
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 21, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 796 total · 153 in this make and model · 673 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 9.2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.32 inHg
- Observed at
- DKR
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 19, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.6 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.