WPR26LA190 · Piper PA-28-140
Piper PA-28-140 · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) en route
From Ak-Chin Regional Airport (A39) to Chandler Municipal Airport (KCHD)
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR26LA190
- 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
Piper PA-28-140
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- 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
- N8714N
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Ak-Chin Regional Airport (A39), Maricopa, AZTo Chandler Municipal Airport (KCHD), Chandler, AZ
- Aircraft age
- About 57 years (built 1969)
- 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 · cruise
- 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 (partial)
- 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 May 14, 2026, at 2043 mountain standard time, a Piper PA-28, N8714N, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Chandler, Arizona. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilot, after several takeoffs and landings at a private airstrip near Chandler, Arizona he heard a loud popping sound from the engine. The engine subsequently began running rough and operating at reduced power as the airplane descended about 300 ft per minute. The pilot reported the loss of engine power to air traffic control while approximately 8 nm south of Chandler Municipal Airport. The pilot continued toward the airport while assessing potential emergency landing sites. When the airplane descended to about 1,800 ft mean sea level, the pilot determined the airplane would not reach the airport and selected a nearby field for an emergency landing. During the landing rollout, the airplane crossed a berm at the edge of the field. The nose landing gear subsequently separated after encountering soft terrain, and the airplane came to rest in the field. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The propeller was damaged, and the nose landing gear separated during the accident sequence. Postaccident examination of the wreckage by the FAA revealed an oil residue on the right side of the engine. The wreckage was retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR26LA190
- Event ID
- 20260517203002
- Case number
- WPR26LA190
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2026-05-15.
- API snapshot SHA-256: a709842180cbec60bc29a7a63aacbd75040c5e3b24b917c78d74aa2da0440a1c; retrieved 2026-09-16T21:29:46.280Z.