2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash
Classic Wings/KIAS Airlines Pilatus PC-6 Porter · Crashed shortly after takeoff: under investigation
From Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC) to Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA26WA236
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 11
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- Airline
- 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
Pilatus PC-6 Porter
- Aircraft type
- Pilatus PC-6
- 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
- D-FIPS
- Operator
- Classic Wings/KIAS Airlines
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC)To Nancy-Essey Airport (ENC)
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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 from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
On 28 June 2026, a Pilatus PC-6 Porter carrying skydivers crashed immediately after takeoff from Nancy-Essey Airport in Tomblaine, France, killing all eleven occupants. The accident is the deadliest skydiving plane crash in French history.
Accident
The aircraft crashed at around 11 a.m. into a bike path in a residential area about 300 m from the runway, narrowly missing nearby homes and a shopping centre. The plane plunged vertically to the ground. A witness said the plane seemingly experienced engine failure. A resident said two bodies were thrown a few meters from the plane. A significant emergency response was mobilized, with police units and 50 firefighters deployed to the scene. Yves Séguy, brought together the relevant services for real-time monitoring of the situation. The French Interior Minister, Laurent Nuñez also visited to the site.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) sent four investigators and a first information investigator to the crash scene.
Text from the Wikipedia article “2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash” (revision 1373604189, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
Sources
Wikipedia article: 2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash
- Revision
- 1373604189 · 2026-09-06 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q140373890
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA26WA236
- Event ID
- 20260701203296
- Case number
- GAA26WA236
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash" (page 83572997, revision 1373604189); merged with NTSB case GAA26WA236 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA26WA236: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA26WA236
- Operation
- operator named as an airline in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2026 Tomblaine Pilatus PC-6 crash" and NTSB case GAA26WA236, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.