- Date
- April 24, 2013, 13:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Milledgeville, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N228DFCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 2013
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20130424011879A
- Case key
- 86776
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 student pilot’s failure to maintain a proper approach path for landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a runway undershoot and collision with a taxiway sign.
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
According to the flight instructor, he and the student pilot were practicing short field landings. When the airplane was about 20 feet above the ground on approach to the runway, the airspeed suddenly decreased. The student pilot applied full engine power, the airplane yawed to the left, and the airplane impacted the ground before it reached the runway. The flight instructor took the flight controls, decreased the engine power to idle, and applied the brakes; however, the airplane struck a taxiway sign that was located on the left side of the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The flight instructor reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
According to the flight instructor, he and the student pilot were practicing short field landings. On approach to runway 28, a 5,509 feet-long by 99 feet-wide runway, the airspeed suddenly decreased when the airplane was about 20 feet above the ground. The student pilot applied full engine power, the airplane yawed to the left, and then the airplane impacted the ground prior to the runway. The flight instructor took the flight controls, decreased the engine power to idle, and applied the brakes in order to stop the airplane, but it struck a taxiway sign located on the left side of the runway, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The wind reported at the airport about the time of the accident was from 250 degrees at 3 knots. The flight instructor reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N228DF
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0282
- Built
- 2012
- Airframe hours
- 198
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-550 SER, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Appendix R Solutions Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 17, 2013
- Departed
- OKZ · Sandersville, GA
- Destination
- SAV · Savannah, GA
- Airport
- MLJ · Baldwin County Airport, runway 28, 5,509 × 99 ft, asphalt
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 4, 2012
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,878 total · 390 in this make and model · 1,671 as pilot in command · 137 in the last 90 days · 61 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 198 total · 189 in this make and model · 117 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- MLJ
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 30, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.