- Date
- May 11, 2024, 14:12 local (18:12 UTC)
- Place
- Chesaning, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N815CDCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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: Grand Rapids
- FAA report
- 20240511005169A
- Case key
- 194248
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 failure to maintain control while landing on a wet turf runway, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with trees. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to ensure the passenger’s proper use of seatbelts before the landing.
Findings · 7
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 while landing on a wet turf runway, the airplane began to skid. He initiated a go-around and then determined that he would not be able to clear the trees at the end of the runway. The pilot aborted the go-around and the airplane landed on the remaining runway, continued off the end of the runway, and impacted trees. The airplane came to rest upright on the ground in a grove of trees. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. During the accident sequence an un-restrained passenger sustained a serious injury, and the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot stated that he provided the passenger a briefing on the use of the seatbelts before the accident; however, he did not confirm the passenger was wearing the seatbelts before landing. The passenger had unfastened the seatbelt during the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N815CD
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0149
- Built
- 2002
- Airframe hours
- 1,754.1
- Engine
- Continental IO-550, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hot Rod Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 26, 2023 · 130 hours before
- Departed
- YIP · Detroit, MI
- Destination
- 50G · Chesaning, MI
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 50G · Howard Nixon Memorial Airport, runway 27, 2,800 × 150 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 5, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,317.6 total · 69.6 in this make and model · 1,265 as pilot in command · 27.2 in the last 90 days · 10.2 in the last 30 days · 3.2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 11 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,200 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.67 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KRNP, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KRNP 111815Z AUTO 31011G20KT 10SM SCT027 BKN032 OVC049 13/06 A2967 RMK AO2 T01260063
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 19, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.7 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.