CEN26LA287 · Mooney M20G
Mooney M20G · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH) to San Antonio International Airport (SAT)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA287
- 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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
Mooney M20G
- Aircraft type
- Mooney M20
- 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
- N6916N
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, TXTo San Antonio International Airport (SAT), San Antonio, TX
- Aircraft age
- About 58 years (built 1968)
- 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 August 13, 2026, about 1302 central daylight time, a Mooney M20G airplane, N6916N, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Luling, Texas. The pilot received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight. According to ADS-B data, the flight originated from the David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, Texas, about 1058. The airplane proceeded to the west-southwest toward San Antonio, Texas, for about an hour. About this time, the pilot contacted San Antonio Approach Control and declared an emergency. The pilot informed the air traffic controller that the airplane’s engine had lost power. The controller advised the pilot of an airport 7 miles northeast. The pilot requested a vector to the airport which the controller supplied. The pilot later reported having the airport in-sight before the airplane’s position reports ceased. The pilot reported that he executed a forced landing to a road. He said that during the landing roll, the airplane’s left wingtip contacted vegetation along the side of the road which pulled the airplane to the left. The main landing gear went onto the shoulder of the road and the airplane veered off the road and struck trees. The airplane sustained substantial damage to its left wing.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA287
- Event ID
- 20260817203588
- Case number
- CEN26LA287
- 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: 838015bf954846389fdc69bfb243eea91fcacab78a128207a3a25429bcbfac03; retrieved 2026-09-17T05:24:10.014Z.