# NTSB Accident CEN25LA188
> **PIPER PA-18** · 2025-05-26 · Vega, TX, USA · MINR
## Event
- **NTSB number:** CEN25LA188
- **Event ID:** 20250528200228
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2025-05-26
- **Location:** Vega, TX, USA
- **Coordinates:** 35.235842, -102.39919
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** MINR
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 2
- **Uninjured:** 0
- **Total aboard:** 2
## Aircraft
- **Make:** PIPER
- **Model:** PA-18
- **Registration:** N7175D
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

The airplane’s inadvertent encounter with a localized low boundary layer, which caused a wind shift, and a gusting tailwind during final approach, that resulted in the pilot deciding to impact a wind cone and a subsequent impact with terrain. Contributing was the low-level convective turbulence.

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