- Date
- May 14, 2024, 20:53 local (May 15, 2024, 01:53 UTC)
- Place
- Shreveport, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N888VLCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Landing: Wildlife encounter (non-bird)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20240514005959A
- Case key
- 194281
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 airplane’s collision with a deer on the runway during landing.
Findings · 1
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 at night, just before the flare, he saw a deer on the runway. He pulled back on the yoke and added power to clear the deer but then heard and felt the impact with the deer. The airplane sustained damage to the left-wing lateral rib and left landing gear. Assessment of the damage by the manufacturer concluded that the wing was not repairable and was no longer airworthy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N888VL
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2084
- Built
- 2020
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-550-K, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Orange Rock Holdings LLC
- Registered owner
- Orange Rock Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LFT · Lafayette, IN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DTN · Shreveport Downtown, runway 05/23, 4,198 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 11,000 total · 60 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 320° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Observed at
- KBAD, 5 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KBAD 150155Z AUTO 32005KT 10SM CLR 23/16 A2977 RMK AO2 SLPNO T02270162 $=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 12, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 775 KB 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.