- Date
- June 6, 2026, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Wessington Springs, SD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4186JJoseph Donahue S-7 Rans
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Abnormal runway contact
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 203235
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4186J
- Reported as
- Joseph Donahue S-7 Rans
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0309527
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Luymes Kirk M
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 4X4
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.