- Date
- July 2, 2026, 10:32 local (15:32 UTC)
- Place
- Lafayette, TN
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N127DCCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20260702007989A
- Case key
- 203308
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On July 2, 2026, at 1032 central daylight time, a Cirrus Design Corp SR22, N127DC, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lafayette, Tennessee. The pilot and passenger sustained no injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulation Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that following the completion of an annual inspection, he was returning a ferry pilot to Owensboro/Davis County Regional Airport (OWB), Owensboro, Kentucky. About 20 minutes into the flight, while at an altitude of 6,500 feet mean sea level, the engine completely lost power. The pilot initially attempted to divert to the nearest airport, which was about 12 miles away, but then determined they would be unable to reach the airport. The pilot then made a distress call to air traffic control and decided to activate the airplane’s whole airframe parachute system at an altitude of 1,975 feet. The parachute successfully deployed and the airplane came to rest in a tree within an urban neighborhood. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage, fuselage, and wings. The airplane was recovered and retained for further examination.
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
- N127DC
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3802
- Built
- 2011
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mountain Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CSV · Crossville, TN
- Destination
- OWB · Owensboro, KY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Angle of attack indicator, Stall warning system, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, 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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 43 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBNA 021653Z 12007KT 10SM SCT042TCU 36/22 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP197 TCU S-W-NW T03560222 $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.