- Date
- March 4, 2025, 12:40 local (18:40 UTC)
- Place
- San Antonio, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N524HJHonda HA-420
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- 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 - SAT FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250304002849A
- Case key
- 199796
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 directional control during a gusty crosswind landing.
Findings · 3
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 although the wind was high and forecast for a crosswind, he believed he could complete the flight before the wind changed. He stated that the wind at the destination did change, but he continued the landing. The pilot stated that the landing was successful, but the airplane was hit by several crosswind gusts and the airplane became uncontrollable. The airplane did a 360° turn on the runway and was headed off the left side of the runway before control was regained. The airplane traveled across the grass and came to rest on the west taxiway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported no mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. Reported wind about the time of the accident was from 270° at 19 kts gusting to 36 kts.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N524HJ
- Reported as
- Honda HA-420
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 42000077
- Built
- 2017
- Engines
- GE HF 120 CMM R28, 2,037 lbs thrust, turbo fanGE HF 120 CMM R28, 2,037 lbs thrust, turbo fan
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- EDC · Austin, TX
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SAT · San Antonio Intl, runway 13R/31L, 8,502 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
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
- Last flight review
- February 15, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 14,051 total · 86 in this make and model · 11,195 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 19 knots, gusting 36
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.69 inHg
- Observed at
- KSAT, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KSAT 041851Z 27019G36KT 10SM CLR 24/M05 A2969 RMK AO2 PK WND 28042/1821 SLP038 T02391050=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.5 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.