- Date
- October 23, 2026, 09:30 local (13:30 UTC)
- Place
- Medford, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N43956Piper PA-28-181
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of engine power (total)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Case key
- 204063
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
- N43956
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Freeflight Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Freeflight Aviation LLC
N43956Registered now · Piper PA-28-181Airframe modelPiper PA-28-181Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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
- 30° at 11 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Observed at
- 11 nm away