ANC26LA063 · Cirrus Design Corp SR22
Aeroplanes Cirrus Design Corp SR22 · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Butler Co Regional Airport - Hogan Field (HAO) to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)
Event
- NTSB case
- ANC26LA063
- 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
- N544CD
- Operator
- Aeroplanes
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Butler Co Regional Airport - Hogan Field (HAO), Hamilton, OHTo Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Aircraft age
- About 21 years (built 2005)
- 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 as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On June 21, 2026, about 1132 eastern daylight time, a Cirrus SR22 airplane, N544CD, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Windom, West Virginia. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that he departed Butler County Regional Airport (HAO), in Hamilton, Ohio, about 0645 to return home to Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU), Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. While in cruise flight about 7,000 ft mean sea level (msl) he noticed a 3% reduction in engine power. A few seconds later, while scanning the instrument panel, the engine lost about 50% of its power. He attempted the engine restart procedure to no avail. About 15 to 20 seconds after the first loss of power, the oil pressure light flickered and then the engine and propeller stopped completely. The pilot selected the nearest airport on the GPS to perform a forced landing. He made right turns and circled over Kee Field Airport (I16), Pineville, West Virginia. He overflew the runway and touched down several times, but was too fast to land. The airplane exited the end of the runway at 60 knots, continued through a fence, trees, and came to rest against a guardrail. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and wings. Postaccident examination revealed fragments of metal in the oil dipstick reservoir. The engine and airframe have been retained for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ANC26LA063
- Event ID
- 20260624203231
- Case number
- ANC26LA063
- 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: bdfd68a2a09297bb7ba32da84f797bad1f1c8539033f516e26869c086eebaecc; retrieved 2026-09-17T05:11:56.283Z.