CEN26FA023 · JMB Aircraft VL-3LSA-912
JMB Aircraft VL-3LSA-912 · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Erie Municipal Airport (KEIK) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26FA023
- 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
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
JMB Aircraft VL-3LSA-912
- Aircraft type
- JMB VL-3
- 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
- N594TT
- Operator
- Odyssey
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Erie Municipal Airport (KEIK), Erie, COTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 2 years (built 2023)
- 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
- Part 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Approach · VFR pattern final
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 19, 2025, about 1531 mountain daylight time, a JMB Aircraft VL-3LSA-912, N594TT, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Erie, Colorado. The pilot receiving instruction and the flight instructor were fatally injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as an instructional flight. According to multiple witnesses, the flight instructor and pilot were doing touch and go landings on runway 34, at the Erie Municipal Airport (KEIK), Erie, Colorado. ADS-B data showed the airplane conduct four circuits consistent with 4 touch-and-go landings on runway 34. On the 5th approach, ADS-B data showed the airplane descend to about 5,600 ft mean sea level (msl) and then climb back to about 5,800 ft msl before the recording stopped. The airport elevation at KEIK is 5,119 ft msl. Several witnesses reported seeing the airplane on approach to runway 34; however, the airplane did not touch down. The airplane leveled off and started to climb, consistent with a go-around maneuver. Multiple witnesses located both at the airport and surrounding the airport reported seeing the airplane tumble or flip and then spin to the ground. Surveillance camera footage showed the airplane in a nose-low spin and then impact the ground. The airplane impacted the grass to the east of runway 34 and came to rest on a heading of about 295°. The wreckage included the fuselage, empennage, both wings, engine, and propeller assembly. Both the main and nose landing gear were crushed directly beneath the wreckage. The engine and forward fuselage were crushed up and aft. The right wing was partially separated at the wing root and exhibited damage to the composite structure along the length of the wing and at the wing tip. The left wing was partially separated at the wing root and exhibited damage to the composite structure along the length of the wing. The empennage separated from the fuselage and was directly adjacent the main wreckage. The GRS Rescue system (airframe parachute) did not deploy during the impact sequence. The safety pin was found secure in the activation handle in the cabin of the airplane. The ballistic rocket was secured safe and later deployed by local first responders. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26FA023
- Event ID
- 20251019201887
- Case number
- CEN26FA023
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3170002c1ebf9b9cdd74a827a305c00c8c72fdde548c102664ad21aa32ec8a98; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:10:17.077Z.