# Incident 20201218021739I: Cirrus Design Corp SR22, Spring, TX, December 18, 2020

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 18, 2020, 14:01 local time
- Place: Spring, TX
- Airport: David Wayne Hooks Memorial Air
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 30.0618° N, 95.5528° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at DAVID WAYNE HOOKS MEML (DWH), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=30.0618&lon=-95.5528&mi=10
- Aircraft: N292DR (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR22
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-550-N
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 5,500 total, 2,000 in this make and model, 55 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20201218021739I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT STATEMENT: ON 12/18/2020 AT 12:36 LCL, MY STUDENT AND I DEPARTED KADS IN N292DR, A 2014 SR22, ON AN INSTRUMENT FLIGHT PLAN TO KDWH. WHILE ON THE RNAV 17R APPROACH INTO KDWH I NOTED

WINDS AT APPROXIMATELY 30 KTS WHILE SURFACE WINDS WERE APPROX 12 KTS. DUE TO THIS DIFFERENCE I ELECTED TO PERFORM THE APPROACH AND LANDING INSTEAD OF ALLOWING MY STUDENT TO DO SO. THE

APPROACH, ROUND OUT, FLARE, AND TOUCHDOWN ON THE MAIN LANDING GEAR WERE NON-EVENTFUL. AS THE AIRCRAFT DECELERATED AND THE NOSE LOWERED, IT CONTINUED TO DESCEND BELOW THE NORMAL ATTITUDE. THE PROPELLER MADE CONTACT WITH THE RUNWAY AND THE AIRCRAFT CAME TO A STOP SHORTLY THEREAFTER. THIS

OCCURRED AT 2:03PM LCL. AFTER COMING TO A STOP ON THE RUNWAY, I RADIOED THE CONTROL TOWER INDICATING WE EXPERIENCED A NOSE GEAR COLLAPSE AND WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO CLEAR THE RUNWAY. THEN, MY STUDENT AND I SHUT DOWN ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AND AVIONICS, TURNED THE FUEL SELECTOR TO THE 'OFF'

POSITION, AND MAGNETO'S TO THE 'OFF' POSITION. WE THEN EXITED THE AIRCRAFT AND WERE MET BY AIRPORT PERSONNEL.

STUDENT STATEMENT: WINDS WERE 140 @10 KNOTS GUSTS 17 WE LANDED SMOOTHLY ON BACK TIRES CENTER LINE KEPT NOSE OFF GROUND SEVERAL SECONDS AND NOSE

SETTLED GENTLY ON PAVEMENT , BUT STARTED TO COLLAPSE LIKE PUSHING ON A MARSHMALLOW UNTIL ENGINE STOPPED AS WE WERE SKIDDING DOWN RUNWAY. I REALIZED WE HAD PROP STRIKE BUT NO

BOUNCING. THEN NOSE SANK FURTHER REALIZING THE GEAR HAD COLLAPSED. WE TURNED EVERYTHING OFF ON PANEL, SHUT GAS OFF AND EVACUATED.

A WITNESS FROM AN AIRCRAFT WAITING TO DEPART STATED: THE PLANE DIDN'T BOUNCE. MAYBE A FEW KNOTS FASTER BUT NOTHING TO HAVE GEAR COLLAPSE LANDING.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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