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NTSB CAROL · CEN26LA281

MOONEY M20E · N3264F

Longmont, CO · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:50:00 UTC

Onboard

2

Fatal

0

Serious

0

Survived

2

Status: In work · Last updated: 8d ago · View docket on data.ntsb.gov →

NTSB record

The agency's structured fields, exactly as published in CAROL. Preliminary records contain location, aircraft, and the defining sequence of events. Probable-cause analysis lands months later with the factual report.

Aircraft

Make · Model
MOONEY M20E
Registration
N3264F
Operator
BAKER RICHARD D
Regulation
Operation type
Defining event
Initial climb · System/Component Failure (Powerplant)
Phase of flight
Initial Climb
Site condition: VMC · Visual meteorological conditions

What outlets are reporting · 1 fact from 2/2 relevant headlines

Deterministically extracted from news headlines. Each fact is the literal phrasing the press used; the outlet count shows how many ran the same line. No AI inference, no rewrite — click an outlet to read the original. Headlines must mention this event's location, tail, or aircraft to be included.

Site

Extraction is rule-based and conservative — it surfaces what headlines literally say. Headlines that didn't mention this event's location, aircraft, or tail are excluded to keep facts attributable. The full press timeline below is unfiltered.

Press timeline · 2 headlines

Same-day coverage from Google News, queried on tail number, location, and aircraft type. Click through to the original outlet — we don't mirror or rehost.

  1. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 · The Denver Post

    Plane lands in field near Longmont airport - The Denver Post
  2. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 · Longmont Times-Call

    All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says - Longmont Times-Call

Refreshed 5d ago. Headlines via Google News RSS. Queries used: "N3264F" crash"Longmont, CO" "plane crash" 2026.

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Cross-references

Source of record for the agency line: NTSB CAROL. Source of record for the press line: Google News RSS. This page synthesizes both and links to each — it is not the report itself, and the Atlas does not draw conclusions about cause until the NTSB does.