- Date
- May 12, 2026
- Place
- Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) · Operator provided
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N391JAShield Ai V-BAT
- Defining event
- Standing-engine(s) operating: Medical event
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Parties
- FAA AVP-110, Shield AI
- Case key
- 202994
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
- N391JA
- Reported as
- Shield Ai V-BAT
- Category
- Airplane, unmanned
- Serial number
- 9560010
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 96.7
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Shield Ai Inc
- Registered owner
- Shield Ai Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Other
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot
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) · Dawn
- Wind
- 350° at 15 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F