- Date
- August 27, 2025, 20:55 local (Aug 28, 2025, 01:55 UTC)
- Place
- Nora Springs, IA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45JNCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report February 12, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250827013369A
- Case key
- 200900
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 improper decision-making for the attempted landing, which resulted in a runway overrun due to inadequate runway landing distance with a quartering tailwind. Contributing to the accident was the wet condition of the runway.
Findings · 5
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 while landing on a wet grass runway, the airplane touched down “a little long.” The pilot was unable to stop the airplane, and it departed the end of the runway surface into an agricultural field. He then attempted to avoid the agricultural vegetation off the end of the runway by turning the airplane to the left; however, the airplane entered a skid and subsequently impacted the vegetation which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported the airplane’s braking was ineffective due to the runway being wet and recently rolled. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing the airplane on runway 09 with wind from 230° at 6 knots. The calculated total landing distance required from the landing distance performance chart was 3,943 ft, which was 1,493 ft more than the available runway distance.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45JN
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0489
- Built
- 2003
- Airframe hours
- 3,358.9
- Engine
- Continental IO-550-N, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 31, 2024
- Departed
- PDC · Prairie du Chien, WI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 05IA · Spotts Field, runway 09, 2,450 × 70 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 59
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 31, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,760 total · 1,400 in this make and model · 2,660 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 230° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KMCW, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KMCW 280153Z AUTO 23006KT 10SM BKN100 21/17 A3007 RMK AO2 RAB07E44 SLP176 P0000 T02060167=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 12, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 12.1 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.