- Date
- August 26, 2021, 14:57 local (18:57 UTC)
- Place
- Fairfield, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N472CDCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20210826022379A
- Case key
- 104017
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 during the landing roll in gusting wind conditions.
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 stated that he just purchased the airplane one week before the accident and had a few hours of transition training. On the day of the accident, he was going to go out and fly in the airport traffic pattern and perform some touch-and-go landings. During the first landing, the airplane was slightly off runway center, and a gust of wind blew it left off the runway and into a runway sign. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N472CD
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22 (NO SERIES)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1197
- Built
- 2004
- Airframe hours
- 1,700
- Engine
- Continental IO550N27, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- CDW · Essex County, runway 22, 4,552 × 80 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Satellite tracking device
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 21, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 16 in this make and model · 35 as pilot in command · 42 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 77 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KCDW
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 21, 2022, 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.