Piper PA-46-350P accident near North Las Vegas, NV

On July 17, 2022, a Piper PA-46-350P (airplane) was involved in an accident near North Las Vegas, NV. 4 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.

Date

July 17, 2022

Place

North Las Vegas, NV

Aircraft

Piper PA-46-350P · Airplane

Injuries

4 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor

Damage

Destroyed

Position

36.211°N, 115.194°W

NTSB ID

20220718105496

Official records · ERA22FA318

• Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation

Air traffic control records

• ATC - Group Chair's Factual Report: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Attachment 1 - ATC Audio Transcript - Vgt Atct: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Attachment 3 - FAA Aircraft Accident Package: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Attachment 4 - Ads-B Data: Document (ZIP), on ntsb.gov
• ATC - Attachment 6 - Vgt Atct Wrong Surface Event History: Document (PDF), on ntsb.gov

NTSB summary

HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn July 17, 2022, about 1203 Pacific daylight time, a Piper PA-46-350P, N97CX (the low-wing airplane), and a Cessna 172N, N160RA (the high-wing airplane), were destroyed when they were involved in an inflight collision while maneuvering to land at North Las Vegas Airport (VGT), North Las Vegas, Nevada. The pilot and copilot in the low-wing airplane and the flight instructor and student pilot in the high-wing airplane were fatally injured. The low-wing airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight and the high-wing airplane was operated as a 14 CFR Part 91 instructional flight. The commercial pilot and private pilot-rated copilot in the low-wing airplane were approaching VGT, their home airport, from the north at the conclusion of an instrument-flight-rules (IFR) flight that originated from Coeur d'Alene Airport - Pappy Boyington Field (COE), Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, about 0943. The high-wing airplane was operating as a visual flight rules (VFR) training flight conducting takeoffs and landings in the right traffic pattern for runway 30R. The flight originated from runway 30L at 1129. At 1156:08, the Nellis Radar Approach Control controller cleared the low-wing airplane for the visual approach and instructed the pilots to overfly VGT at midfield for left traffic to runway 30L. Air traffic control responsibility for the flight was transferred to the VGT air traffic control tower (ATCT) at 1158:26. At 1158:43, the copilot in the low-wing airplane contacted the VGT local control (LC) controller and reported that the a

Probable cause

The low-wing airplane pilot’s failure to ensure that the airplane was aligned with the correct runway, which resulted in a collision with the high-wing airplane on final approach. Contributing to the accident was the controller’s failure to provide timely and adequate traffic information to either airplane and his failure to recognize the developing conflict and to act in a timely manner. Also con

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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.