CEN26LA066 · Cirrus Design Corp SR22
Cirrus Design Corp SR22 · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01) to Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA066
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
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
- N242AZ
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01), Memphis, TNTo Johnson County Executive Airport (OJC), Olathe, KS
- Aircraft age
- About 17 years (built 2008)
- 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 December 20, 2025, about 1302 central standard time, a Cirrus SR22 airplane, N242AZ, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Springfield, Missouri. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airplane departed from the General Dewitt Spain Airport (M01), Memphis, Tennessee, about 1130, for the cross-country flight. According to the pilot, about an hour and twenty minutes after departing, while in cruise flight at 8,000 ft mean sea level, he received a Crew Alerting System (CAS) message indicating a high turbine inlet temperature (TIT). The pilot followed the appropriate checklist and reduced fuel flow to the engine which resolved the CAS message; however, the engine started to run rough. The engine roughness increased over time though the engine instruments indicated normal operation. The pilot elected to divert to the Springfield – Branson National Airport (SGF), Springfield, Missouri, and started a descent. Upon reducing power for the descent, the engine ran significantly worse. The pilot descended at the airplane’s best glide speed and prepared to make a forced landing to a road. The pilot stated that during the forced landing, he moved the power lever forward, but the engine did not provide any thrust. The pilot landed on the southbound lanes on US 65, about 9 miles east-northeast of SGF. During the landing, the airplane’s left wing struck a road sign, crossed the highway median and came to rest upright in the northbound lanes. The pilot and the passenger were able to egress from the airplane without further incident. A post-accident fire ensued and partially consumed the airplane. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings and the fuselage. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for future examination. The airplane was equipped with a Continental Motors IO-550-N51 reciprocating engine and a Hartzell PHC-J3YF-1N/N7605C 3-blade controllable pitch composite propeller.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA066
- Event ID
- 20251222202191
- Case number
- CEN26LA066
- 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: 4c3b5c78bbe17ce475c65fdef88b3a6ff0e28bbdc45876148e5e266f3b4710ef; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:37:13.657Z.