- Date
- September 5, 2026, 11:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Shelby, NC · EHO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3966LCessna 172G
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- 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
- 203902
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
- N3966L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17254135
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 3,730
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 24, 2026
- Departed
- GRD · Greenwood, SC
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- KEHO · Shelby-Cleveland County Regional Airport, runway 23, 5,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- 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
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- EHO
- METAR
- METAR KEHO 051555Z AUTO 25003KT 10SM CLR 32/23 A2996 RMK AO2 T03220228=