- Date
- August 5, 2026, 18:17 local (22:17 UTC)
- Place
- Carlisle, PA · Based on the location from the pilot's initial statement
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29DABeech 58
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 15, 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
- 20260805009959A
- Case key
- 203544
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
A collision with a deer during landing.
Findings · 1
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 stated while on final approach to land, he was facing directly into the sun. The airplane touched down about 1,000 ft from the runway threshold, and during the landing roll the pilot spotted a deer running across the runway from left to right. He immediately added full power and set approach flaps to abort the landing. The pilot then heard a “thud” and the airplane yawed to the left. He immediately reduced engine power and landed the airplane on the remaining runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the empennage the left flap as a result of the collision with the deer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29DA
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH-645
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 9,891.1
- Engines
- Continental Aerospace Technologies IO-520CB, 285 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental Engine Technologies IO-520CB-B31, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 12, 2025 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- IDI · Indiana, PA
- Destination
- N94 · Carlisle, PA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- N94 · Carlisle Airport, runway 28, 4,008 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 61
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 21, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 6,518 total · 3,162 in this make and model · 6,435 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- KCXY, 15 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCXY 052256Z 36006KT 10SM CLR 26/13 A2987 RMK AO2 SLP114 T02610133
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 15, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 658 KB 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.