- Date
- April 22, 2026, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Crystal River, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N868SACessna 172M
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 202879
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
- N868SA
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266439
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 6,925
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Crystal Aero Group
- Registered owner
- S O W Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 2025
- Airport
- CGC · Crystal River/Davis Fld, runway 36, 2,666 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- ADS-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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 52 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KCGC
- METAR
- METAR KCGC 221755Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM BKN060 26/11 A3020 RMK AO2