Six people, five adults and a child, died on Tuesday night, 13 October 2026, when a Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage crashed in the Town of Dellona, west of Wisconsin Dells. The Sauk County Sheriff's Office said everyone aboard the six-seat aircraft was killed.
The single-engine airplane, registered N931TT according to flight-tracking data, had left Kenosha County Airport less than an hour earlier on a flight to Menomonie in western Wisconsin. The NTSB and the FAA are investigating.
Kurzinfo
- Date and time: 13 October 2026, about 21:30 local time
- Standort: Near Park Lane, Town of Dellona, Sauk County, near Mirror Lake State Park
- Flugzeug: Piper PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage, N931TT
- Route: Kenosha County Airport to Menomonie, Wisconsin
- An Bord: Six: five adults and one child
- Todesfälle: All six aboard
- Untersuchung: NTSB, with the FAA
What We Know So Far
According to the sheriff's office, dispatchers received several reports of a downed aircraft shortly before 21:30. Deputies found the wreckage in a wooded area near Park Lane, close to Mirror Lake State Park, and secured the site overnight. Sheriff Chip Meister confirmed that the aircraft was a six-passenger plane and that everyone aboard had died. No one on the ground was hurt and no buildings were damaged.
The airplane departed Kenosha at about 20:43. Flight-tracking data reported by local media showed a descent and a change of direction before the crash. The Associated Press reported that the aircraft had been in contact with air traffic control and that rain was falling as a thunderstorm moved through the area. Investigators will look at whether weather played a part. Those details are early and none of them is a finding.
Das Flugzeug
The PA-46-350P Malibu Mirage is a pressurised, six-seat, single-engine piston airplane, the version of Piper's PA-46 family produced from the late 1980s onwards. It is popular with owner-pilots for business and family travel because it can cruise at high altitude above much of the weather, which also makes weather-related decisions on such flights a frequent focus of investigations.
The NTSB normally publishes a preliminary report within a few weeks of a fatal accident, with a probable cause following a year or more later. The names of the victims had not been released at the time of writing.
FOX6 News Milwaukee report from the scene of the Sauk County crash.
Why We Are Not Speculating
Crashes at night, in rain, in a high-performance single will draw instant theories online. The facts released so far are limited: the route, the time, the aircraft type and the toll. Everything else waits for the investigators. We will update this report when the NTSB releases its preliminary findings.
Sources: Sauk County Sheriff's Office via WMTV, Channel3000 and TMJ4; Associated Press via ABC News; AVweb; FOX6 News Milwaukee
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