- Date
- March 27, 2021, 11:43 local (16:43 UTC)
- Place
- Boerne, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N689PGCirrus Design SR20
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA -- Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20210327007179A
- Case key
- 102851
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a full stop landing and the subsequent attempted go-around in turbulent conditions.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that on his third practice full stop landing, the airplane encountered light turbulence and “dropped suddenly,” impacting the runway hard. The airplane became airborne again, and the pilot initiated a go-around. During the go-around, the airplane entered a left bank and the pilot attempted to correct; however, the landing gear contacted the ground between the runway and taxiway, collapsing the nose and right main landing gear, and the airplane came to rest in the grass area adjacent to the taxiway. The airplane’s fuselage sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N689PG
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1889
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 3,247.6
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-ES, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Texas Skies Flight School
- Registered owner
- Sky Flea Aero LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5C1 · Boerne, TX
- Airport
- 5C1 · Boerne Stage Airfield, runway 17, 5,006 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight display, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 52
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 25, 2019
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 4,624 total · 36 in this make and model · 2,182 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,100 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- 5C1, 0.5 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 13, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.2 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.