ERA26LA183 · Cessna 421 C
Manufactures Transport Cessna 421 C · Accident: loss of control on ground during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Region of Waterloo International Airport (CYKF)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA26LA183
- 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
Cessna 421 C
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 421
- 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
- C-GTGR
- Operator
- Manufactures Transport
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Region of Waterloo International Airport (CYKF), Waterloo Wellington
- Aircraft age
- About 50 years (built 1976)
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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 on ground
- 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 as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On April 18, 2026, about 1410 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 421C, C-GTGR, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Richmond, Virginia. The pilot and four passengers were uninjured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 business flight. The pilot reported that they were departing from the Richmond International Airport (RIC), Richmond, Virginia. After advancing the throttles to full power for takeoff, he noted an asymmetric power condition, which required left rudder input to maintain the runway’s centerline. As the ground speed increased, the airplane veered to the right. The pilot reduced both throttles to idle; however, the airplane departed the right side of the runway, and the left wing struck an airport sign, resulting in substantial damage. The pilot subsequently taxied to the ramp, secured the airplane, and all occupants deplaned without injury. Data was successfully downloaded from the airplane’s engine monitor and forwarded to the NTSB Vehicle Recorders Laboratory, Washington, DC, for further examination. The airframe and engines were retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA26LA183
- Event ID
- 20260421202861
- Case number
- ERA26LA183
- 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. 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: bdbbdced188200af209781a01dd0121912243a07493012cdf5c380c5e2390965; retrieved 2026-09-16T21:18:44.068Z.