- Date
- April 24, 2026, 15:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Crownpoint, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N610PSCzech Sport Piper Sport
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 30, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20260424005029A
- Case key
- 202900
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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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to correctly identify the runway, which resulted in a landing on a residential driveway and collision with a gate.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
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.
Analysis
The pilot reported that while enroute he became ill and notified air traffic control (ATC) who then vectored him to the closest airport. The pilot identified what he thought was the airport, but then completed a descent and landing on a residential driveway. During landing the airplane impacted a gate extension, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N610PS
- Reported as
- Czech Sport Piper Sport
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P1001013
- Built
- 2010
- Airframe hours
- 3,350
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 22, 2025
- Departed
- AEG · Albuquerque, NM
- Destination
- 1L8 · Hurricane, UT
- Airport
- 0E8
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 26, 2026
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 936 total · 656 in this make and model · 936 as pilot in command · 41 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 23 knots, gusting 34
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KGUP, 33 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KGUP 242153Z AUTO 23023G34KT 10SM CLR 20/M14 A2989 RMK AO2 PK WND 23034/2152 SLP047 T02001139=
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.