- Date
- March 24, 2025, 10:48 local (15:48 UTC)
- Place
- Nacogdoches, TX · runway excursion
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N439FJCostruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 Sierra Mkii
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/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
- FAA Flight Standards
- FAA report
- 20250324006149A
- Case key
- 199956
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 while landing with a crosswind.
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 the initial leg of the cross-country flight proceeded normally. As he approached the airport to land on the return flight, a right 80° crosswind prevailed. The first two approaches to runway 36 were not stable, and he decided to execute go-arounds. On the third approach, the crosswind was then gusting to 17 knots; however, the approach seemed to be stable, and the pilot continued with the landing. As the main wheels touched down a wind gust from the right pushed the airplane off the runway. The pilot’s efforts to maintain directional control were not successful, and the airplane exited the left side of the runway. The airplane came to rest in the grass area adjacent to the runway with substantial damage to the firewall and engine mount. The pilot reported no failures or malfunctions that might have contributed to the loss of control. The recorded wind at the time of the accident was 070° at 11 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N439FJ
- Reported as
- Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2002 Sierra Mkii
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 584
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 919.2
- Engine
- Rotax 912ULS2, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Hch Aviation Holdings LLC - Series N439fj, doing business as N/A
- Registered owner
- Hch Aviation Holdings LLC - Series N439fj
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 11, 2024 · 79 hours before
- Departed
- TRL · Terrell, TX
- Destination
- OCH · Nacogdoches, TX
- Airport
- OCH · A L Mangham Jr. Regional, runway 36, 5,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B
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
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 19, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 112 total · 108 in this make and model · 40 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.80 inHg
- Observed at
- OCH, 0.5 nm away
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 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.