CEN18WA190 · Reims F172N
Reims F172N · Accident
From Rotterdam The Hague Airport (EHRD) to Rotterdam The Hague Airport (EHRD)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN18WA190
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Reims F172N
- Aircraft type
- Reims F172
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PH-SBM
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Rotterdam The Hague Airport (EHRD), RotterdamTo Rotterdam The Hague Airport (EHRD), Rotterdam
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Unknown
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Stolwijk, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On May 22, 2018, about 0930 UTC, a Reims Aviation, F172N airplane, PH-SBM, was destroyed when it impacted trees and terrain near Stolwijk, The Netherlands. The two pilots on board the airplane were fatally injured. The foreign, local personal flight departed from the Rotterdam The Hague Airport (EHRD), near Rotterdam, The Netherlands.This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of The Netherlands. Any further information regarding the investigation can be obtained from:
The Dutch Safety Board P.O. Box 95404 2509 CK THE HAGUE The Netherlands Telephone: +31 70 333 7000 Facsimile: +31 70 333 7077 www.safetyboard.nl
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by, or obtained from, the Dutch Safety Board, The Netherlands.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN18WA190
- Event ID
- 20180523X10239
- Case number
- CEN18WA190
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 5b0bb4fb0732c4ad8ad52961ae924f4d942f64e97b5b267e85821fa6cd581a9c; retrieved 2026-09-15T06:41:11.377Z.