- Date
- October 10, 2026, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Flint, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N96YYDiamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Fuel starvation
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203991
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
- N96YY
- Reported as
- Diamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- C0687
- Built
- 2016
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Crosswinds Aviation
- Registered owner
- Shortt Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Departed
- YIP · Willow Run, MI
- Destination
- YIP · Willow Run, MI
- Airport
- FNT
N96YYRegistered now · Diamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1Airframe modelDiamond Aircraft Ind DA20-C1Engine modelContinental IO-240-B
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.