- Date
- January 3, 2025, 10:40 local (16:40 UTC)
- Place
- Lubbock, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N725DCCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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
- FAA Lubbock FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250103000069A
- Case key
- 199504
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 loss of directional control during the takeoff roll for undermined reasons that resulted in an impact with trees.
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 during the takeoff roll, at 50 knots, he felt a quick shake/wiggle and the airplane turned hard left due to a left main landing gear tire failure. The pilot stated that he reduced engine power and applied right rudder pedal control input as much as possible, but the airplane continued to pull left. The airplane exited the left side of the runway and impacted trees. The airplane came to rest on its left side and a postcrash fire ensued that destroyed the airplane. The postcrash fire precluded any examination to determine the cause of the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N725DC
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 9002
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 357
- Engine
- Continental TSIO550K2B, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lubbock Wrecker Service LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 8, 2023
- Destination
- ADS · Addison, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- F82 · Lubbock Executive Airpark, runway 17, 5,144 × 70 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute
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
- 43
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- November 23, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 405 total · 255 in this make and model · 335 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.37 inHg
- Observed at
- LBB, 11 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 24.1 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.