- Date
- April 13, 2024, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Chesterfield, MO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N594MCirrus Design SR20
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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
- Federal Aviation Administration: FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240413003419A
- Case key
- 194092
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control during takeoff. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Findings · 4
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 flight instructor reported that while performing a soft-field takeoff, the airplane briefly lifted off the runway and subsequently bounced. The flight instructor directed the student pilot to pitch down as he applied forward pressure on the yoke. The airplane remained in a nose high attitude and yawed to the left. The flight instructor verbalized “my controls” as the airplane then turned to the right and the pitch increased. The airplane came to rest upright on the edge of the runway. The landing gear collapsed upon impact with the ground which resulted in substantial damage to the engine mount and firewall. The flight instructor stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N594M
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2595
- Built
- 2020
- Airframe hours
- 1,709.8
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-390, 215 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mistwood Air 1 LLC
- Registered owner
- Mistwood Air 1 LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 22, 2024
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SUS · Spirit Of St Louis, runway 26R, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic primary flight 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 17, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 838.8 total · 107.5 in this make and model · 793.2 as pilot in command · 98.5 in the last 90 days · 21.2 in the last 30 days · 2.9 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 46
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 75.7 total · 69.7 in this make and model · 2.4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- KSUS
- METAR
- KSUS 131754Z 12007KT 10SM CLR 24/07 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP175 T02440072 10244 20033 58034=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 28, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.5 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.