- Date
- October 16, 2026, 12:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Jacksonville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N234EPTextron 172S
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Hard landing
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 204034
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
- N234EP
- Reported as
- Textron 172S
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Epic Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Epic Aviation Inc
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