- Date
- January 19, 2026, 14:43 local (19:43 UTC)
- Place
- Madisonville, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88WLFrankewich Walter S-21 Outbound
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260119000149A
- Case key
- 202356
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to compensate for gusty crosswind conditions during the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control and subsequent runway excursion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The pilot was attempting a normal landing in an 8-knot right crosswind that was gusting to 14 knots. During the landing the airplane departed the left side of the runway and came to rest near a berm. The impact resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88WL
- Reported as
- Frankewich Walter S-21 Outbound
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 02210165
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 17
- Engine
- Continental IOX-340-BDEY2, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Flight test · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · November 4, 2025 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- DKX · Knoxville, TN, TN
- Destination
- 5TN4 · Greenback, TN
- Airport
- MNV · Monroe County, runway 23, 3,643 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 25, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 610 total · 21 in this make and model · 545 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- MNV
- METAR
- METAR KMNV 191935Z AUTO 32008G14KT 5SM HZ CLR 04/M12 A3022 RMK A01=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.2 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.