Mission 26-M-0362

NRAT Mission - 26-M-0362

Date:  16 Aug 2026 /  1715Z

Narrative:  On the morning (3:00am) of 17 August, the NRAT team was alerted for a missing homebuilt aircraft in West Virginia.  Team members quickly started analyzing the data.  The departure date and time in the ALNOT was incorrect, so analysts started looking back in time.  There was no ADS-B data for this aircraft, so raw Radar data was used.  This was a local flight from Jackson Co. Airport (I18).  The analyst found a suspicious track from  Saturday afternoon that had no valid Mode-C, so there was no altitude data on the aircraft.  But the parameters matched what we are looking for.  Our track was passed to AFRCC, who passed it back to local LE, who went to the area and found the wreckage.  The pilot survived the crash with neck and back injuries and had to be cut from the aircraft.  He was trapped under the aircraft for over 20 hours

Time from Activation to First Product:  40 Minutes (due to inaccurate takeoff time)

AFRCC Find:  Yes

AFRCC Save:  Yes