# NTSB CEN25LA262: Cirrus Design SR22T, N320EB, Champaign/Urbana, IL, June 27, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · No injuries · Class 4 · Limited · Final report
- Date: June 27, 2025, 13:20 local (18:20 UTC)
- Place: Champaign/Urbana, IL
- Coordinates: 40.038561, -88.276539 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.0386&lon=-88.2765&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Taxi](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/250) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200)
- Highest injury: No injuries
- Injuries: 1 uninjured
- 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
- NTSB case key (mKey): 200580
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=CEN25LA262
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/200580/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=200580
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/CEN25LA262

## Probable cause

The ground vehicle operator’s failure to maintain clearance from the airplane.

## Findings

NTSB's coded findings; those marked are part of the probable cause.

- [Use of equip/info](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063000): Personnel issues › Task performance · Ground crew (probable cause); cases with it: [Cirrus Design SR22T, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063000/cases.md?model=2130004), [All aircraft, 111 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02063000/cases.md)
- [Attention/monitoring: monitoring environment](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545): Personnel issues › Psychological · Ground crew (probable cause); cases with it: [Cirrus Design SR22T, 1 case](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md?model=2130004), [All aircraft, 809 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-findings/02021545/cases.md)

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Taxi: Ground collision](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200) (defining event); cases with it: [Cirrus Design SR22T, 2 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md?model=2130004), [All aircraft, 618 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/200/sequence.md)

## 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](https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N320EB), registered now, S/N 10744, built 2025 (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR22T
- Registry model: [Cirrus Design SR22T](https://openairdocs.org/model/cirrus-design-sr22t) (registry code 2130004) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: [Continental TSIO-550-K](https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-tsio-550-k) (registry code 17410, reciprocating) (OpenAirDocs)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 10744
- Year built: 2025
- Airframe hours: 4.1
- Engines: 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

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; age 30; injuries: none; 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=


## FAA reports on this event (1)

The FAA's own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date (OpenAirDocs).

- [Accident 20250627014279A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250627014279A), Jun 27, 2025: Cirrus Design Corp SR22T, Savoy, IL, Substantial damage. While taxing on the ramp after landing, a piece of ground support equipment was driven into the left side of the fuselage aft of the wing. No injuries were…

## Docket (3 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=200580. 25.6 MB in all.

- Pilot/operator aircraft accident report, NTSB form 6120.1 (item 1, PDF, 10 pages, 4.6 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19301954&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=NTSB%20FORM%206120.1_Redacted-Rel.pdf
- Investigation photographs (item 2, PDF, 3 pages, 566 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19302473&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Investigation%20Photographs-Rel.pdf
- Company incident report (item 3, PDF, 4 pages, 20.4 MB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=19302040&FileExtension=pdf&FileName=Company%20Incident%20Report_Redacted-Rel.pdf

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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