- Date
- September 14, 2026, 14:29 local (20:29 UTC)
- Place
- Nibbe, MT
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N96888Taylorcraft BC12D
- Defining event
- Enroute: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203820
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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.
Loss of control in flightAll aircraft: 5,002 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- N96888
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft BC12D
- Category
- Airplane
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jeremy Knutsen
- Registered owner
- Jeremy Knutsen
- Airport
- NA
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 33 knots, gusting 44
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.87 inHg
- Observed at
- KBIL, 25 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBIL 141953Z 27033G44KT 10SM FEW055 BKN085 18/M02 A2987 RMK AO2 PK WND 27044/1948 SLP093 T01831022