- Date
- October 9, 2026, 18:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Yankton, SD · Soybean field
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N792CTFlight Design Ctls
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203990
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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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
- N792CT
- Reported as
- Flight Design Ctls
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F-09-01-09
- Built
- 2009
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Departed
- KYKN · Yankton, SD
N792CTRegistered now · Flight Design CTLSAirframe modelFlight Design CTLSEngine modelRotax 912ULS series
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
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.75 inHg
- Observed at
- KYKN, 18 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KYKN 092256Z AUTO 15011KT 10SM CLR 28/14 A2975 RMK AO2 SLP079 T02830139