# NTSB GAA26WA220: Cessna 421, La Baule-Escoublac, France, June 19, 2026

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: June 19, 2026, 17:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place: La Baule-Escoublac, France · Latitude :47.278611 
Longitude : -2.331389

- Coordinates: 47.278611, -2.331389
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=47.2786&lon=-2.3314&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 2 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- Parties: Textron Aviation, BEA, Continental Motors
- NTSB case key (mKey): 203208
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA26WA220
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/203208/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA26WA220

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,703 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: F-GUST (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 421
- Category: Airplane
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: Fire at unknown time
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Departed: LFRN, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande
- Destination: LFRE, La Baule Escoublac

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Day
- Wind: 250° at 9 knots
- Visibility: 10 statute miles
- Temperature: 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Observed at: LFRZ, 8 nm away
- METAR: METAR LFRZ 191530Z AUTO 25009KT 210V300 CAVOK 23/16 Q1015 NOSIG

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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