- Date
- August 17, 2026, 09:35 local (15:35 UTC)
- Place
- Socorro, NM
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2970SCessna 150
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Nose over/nose down
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO - ABQ
- Case key
- 203707
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
- N2970S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150 (G)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15066870
- Built
- 1967
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Double Circle LLC
- Registered owner
- Double Circle LLC
- Departed
- BRG · Belen, NM
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- ONM · Socorro Muni, runway 06/24, 4,590 × 60 ft, asphalt
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.
Other investigations on N2970S · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.