- Date
- April 7, 2022, 19:50 local (Apr 8, 2022, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Peyton, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N248GCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern final: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20220407004559A
- Case key
- 104929
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s decision to not activate the runway lighting and misjudged the runway location, which resulted in a collision with a windsock.
Findings · 5
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 he intended to land after sunset and did not activate the runway lighting. During final approach, the airplane collided with the airport windsock and landed next to the runway. During the landing roll the pilot maneuvered the airplane onto the runway and stopped on a taxiway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing when it impacted the windsock. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations and that he misjudged the runway location.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N248G
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1261
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 1,861.2
- Engine
- Continental Motors IO-550-N, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Halo LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 12, 2022 · 15.3 hours before
- Departed
- CDC · Cedar City, UT
- Destination
- FLY · Peyton, CO
- Airport
- FLY · Meadow Lake Airport, runway 33, 6,001 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 26, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 85 in this make and model · 151 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 360° at 8 knots, gusting 16
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 7 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.32 inHg
- Observed at
- KFLY
- METAR
- KFLY 080155Z AUTO 36008G16KT 10SM CLR 03/M14 A3032 RMK AO2 T00301141
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 2, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.0 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.