WPR26FA202 · Pipistrel D O O SINUS 912
Pipistrel D O O SINUS 912 · Accident
Event
- NTSB case
- WPR26FA202
- 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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- 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
Pipistrel D O O SINUS 912
- Aircraft type
- Pipistrel SINUS 912
- Category
- Glider
- 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
- N1277P
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- About 1 year (built 2025)
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
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 31, 2026, about 1236 central daylight time, a Pipistrel D O O Sinus 912, N1277P, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Columbus, Mississippi. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the airport manager from Columbus-Lowndes County Airport (UBS), Columbus, Mississippi, the pilot was observed arriving at the airport around noon. Airport security video showed the airplane takeoff a short time later. Preliminary ADS-B revealed that the airplane departed UBS about 1207 and flew in a northeasterly direction for about 15 minutes. The flight track indicated a turn to the west-southwest in a direction back toward UBS. ADS-B data ended about 8 miles northeast of UBS. Examination of the accident site revealed that the airplane was destroyed in a postcrash fire and came to rest upright adjacent to a field, near a rural residential area, about 5 miles northeast of UBS. The main wreckage came to rest on a magnetic heading of 148° at the base of a power transmission pole. The first identified point of contact (FIPC) was a power transmission line about 25 ft southwest of the transmission pole. All major structural components of the airplane were located at the accident site. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR26FA202
- Event ID
- 20260531203085
- Case number
- WPR26FA202
- 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: 4bb38ebbea4621eba0c9122b864979d2fd6b745c1710005f12e9c839d2571d56; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:16:17.379Z.