- Date
- September 2, 2026, 17:17 local (22:17 UTC)
- Place
- West Branch, IA · on the black top road
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N55GAMooney M20E
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fuel exhaustion
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Des Moines FSDO
- Case key
- 203739
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55GA
- Reported as
- Mooney M20E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 541
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- 52 Whiskey LLC
- Registered owner
- 52 Whiskey LLC
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.
Weather
- METAR
- KDSM 022054Z 20012G17KT 10SM FEW110 FEW150 FEW250 35/21 A2988 RMK AO2 LTG DSNT N SLP107