CEN26LA046 · Cirrus Design Corp SR22
CWN Aviation Cirrus Design Corp SR22 · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH) to Addison Airport (ADS)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA046
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
Cirrus Design Corp SR22
- Aircraft type
- Cirrus SR22
- 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
- N79EM
- Operator
- CWN Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, TXTo Addison Airport (ADS), Addison, TX
- 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
- En route
- 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 engine power (total)
- 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 November 13, 2025, about 1430 central standard time, a Cirrus SR22 airplane, N79EM, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Teague, Texas. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that about 30 minutes into the flight from David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport in Houston, Texas, to Addison Airport in Addison, Texas, he heard a loud bang followed by popping and scraping noises with a corresponding violent airframe shake. At the same moment, he noticed oil venting from the engine cowling primarily from around the oil door. The pilot chose to divert to the Teague Municipal Airport (68F) in Teague, Texas. During the diversion, he noticed that the No. 2 cylinder head and exhaust gas temperatures were not visible, and the engine RPM indicated 0 (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Engine Monitor Data Plot The pilot performed the forced landing checklist and determined that 68F was outside the best glide range of the airplane. He then elected to find a suitable field over which to deploy the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS). The CAPS deployed normally, and the airplane collided with a tree line during decent which resulted in substantial damage to the empennage and left wing. Postaccident examination of the engine revealed several holes in the engine crankcase. The No. 1 and 2 cylinders, along with both magnetos, separated from the engine. A review of the engine maintenance logbook showed numerous maintenance actions for various oil leaks with the engine crankcase over the previous 12 calendar months. The airplane received its airworthiness certificate in October 2023, and the engine had accumulated about 500 hours according to the airplane’s tachometer. The engine was removed for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA046
- Event ID
- 20251113202003
- Case number
- CEN26LA046
- 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 UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 33cd823584843ad93eaaef1c3bd2ca3e8197327eba66bfb0a36a380eca36d610; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:32:37.308Z.