- Date
- October 7, 2026, 20:30, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Whiteville, NC
- Phase of flight
- Emergency descent
- Aircraft
- N31RFPiper PA-32-260
- Defining event
- Emergency descent: Loss of engine power (partial)
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 203967
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
- N31RF
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-260
- Operator
- Legend48 LLC
- Registered owner
- Legend48 LLC
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.