Cirrus Vision Jet's Landing Gear Collapses During Takeoff from Closed Runway in Idaho

The aircraft attempted to depart from a closed section of runway under construction at Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport; the pilot was the only person aboard and was injured.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Aug 18, 2026, 6:25 p.m. ETWritten Aug 27, 2026, 3:21 p.m. ET

A 's landing gear collapsed during a attempt from a closed runway section at Driggs-Reed Memorial Airport in Idaho on August 14, 2026, according to a report by aerotime.aero. The incident occurred at approximately 06:30 . The pilot, the only person aboard, sustained one injury, the report said. The aircraft hit gravel on the closed portion of the runway, which was under construction, causing the landing gear to collapse. A NOTAM issued on August 5 detailed the partial runway closure, according to aerotime.aero. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating. Authorities have not said why the Vision Jet entered the closed portion of the runway or whether the pilot was aware of the NOTAM restriction, the report said. The cause of the incident has not been determined. Weather observations recorded at KDIJ, about 1.5 miles away, 26 minutes after the reported time, showed calm winds, visibility of 10 statute miles, a few clouds at 2,900 feet, and a temperature of 53°F.

Was this report accurate and useful?

Reference data

From aircraft and geographic registries, not from the news sources. Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Terrain elevation: 6,115 ft
Nearest aerodrome: 1.5 miles SSW of Driggs/Reed Memorial Airport (KDIJ)

Sources

Cirrus Vision Jet crashes during closed runway takeoffaerotime.aero

Revision history

Version 127 Aug 2026, 19:21current
First published.

How we work

This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.

Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.

Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.

None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.