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Volunteer Safety Database Lists Fatal Single-Engine Crash Near Bethany, Missouri

An early contributed entry records one death in the crash of a Piper PA-24-250 on August 4, 2026; no accident authority has confirmed any of it.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 11:02 a.m. ET
An early entry in a volunteer-maintained aviation safety database records a fatal crash of a single-engine aircraft near Bethany, Missouri, on August 4, 2026. The entry lists one fatality. This is a developing account: the contributed database is typically compiled from first reports and is sometimes wrong, and none of these details has been confirmed by an accident authority. The same contributed entry lists the aircraft as a , registration , operating privately. No official record confirms the aircraft's identity, the operator, the date or the death toll. The cause has not been determined, and no investigating authority has published a finding. Against that registration, aircraft registry records list a Piper PA-24-250, a single-engine piston landplane with a Lycoming TI0-540 series engine, serial number 24-3672, built in 1964 and 62 years old, registered in the United States. Registry records list the registered owner as Anderson William; the owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight. Registry records can be out of date. As a matter of record, the NTSB database, which begins in 2008, contains 67 other cases involving the Piper PA-24-250, of which 22 involved a fatality. That count is a record of past cases only, not a safety rate, and it says nothing about the cause of this one. The state of any investigation is not known from the available record.

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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 Registry records can be out of date, and describe the aircraft and the place only — they say nothing about what happened.

Registration
N8422P
Type
Piper PA-24-250 — single-engine piston landplane
Engines
LYCOMING TI0-540 SER
Built
1964-01-01 (62 years old)
Registered owner
Anderson WilliamThe owner of record is not necessarily the operator, the pilot, or otherwise connected to the flight.

Sources

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Revision history

  1. Version 37 Aug 2026, 15:02current

    Clarified that the NTSB type count is not a safety rate; no new facts added.

  2. Version 25 Aug 2026, 20:07

    No new information; wording tightened on the limits of the contributed database entry.

  3. Version 15 Aug 2026, 20:06

    First published.

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