- Date
- October 18, 2026, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Boonville, IN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 uninjured; on the ground: 1 fatal
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N88218Piper J3C-65
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Case key
- 204026
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
- N88218
- Reported as
- Piper J3C-65
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
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
- 170° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- 9 nm away