- Date
- June 27, 2025, 13:20 local (18:20 UTC)
- Place
- Champaign/Urbana, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N320EBCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250627014279A
- Case key
- 200580
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 ground vehicle operator’s failure to maintain clearance from the airplane.
Findings · 2
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 ground vehicle operator reported that while driving behind the taxiing airplane, he looked to the left and did not see that the airplane began to turn off the taxiway toward the ramp. The ground vehicle operator continued driving forward and struck the airplane on the left side of the fuselage, which resulted in substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N320EB
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10744
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 4.1
- Engine
- Continental Motors TSIO-550K, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Operator
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Registered owner
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DLH · Duluth, MN
- Destination
- CMI · Champaign, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CMI · University of Illinois/Willard Airport
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Data recorder, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system
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
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 3, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,017 total · 413 in this make and model · 799 as pilot in command · 47 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.99 inHg
- Observed at
- KCMI
- METAR
- METAR KCMI 271853Z 20007KT 10SM FEW035 27/22 A2999 RMK AO2 SLP149 T02670222=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 25.6 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.