- Date
- April 30, 2025, 10:39 local (14:39 UTC)
- Place
- Stevensville, MD · Left side of RWY 29 near the water
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N771SLCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: 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/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250430004189A
- Case key
- 200083
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 control of the airplane during an aborted landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.
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 pilot was approaching the destination airport for landing. He described that while on final approach, the airplane crossed the runway numbers at an indicated airspeed of 88 knots with full flaps extended. During the landing roll, the pilot pitched the nose up to alleviate a “shaking” of the nose landing gear. The nose landing gear lifted from the runway, and the airplane then landed hard and bounced. The pilot applied full power and right rudder to abort the landing. The airplane lifted off but then descended back to the runway and veered left. The airplane exited the left side of the runway and the nose landing gear collapsed as the airplane traversed a taxiway. The airplane impacted rocks and came to rest next to a retention pond. The airplane’s wings and empennage sustained substantial damage during the accident sequence. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N771SL
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1405
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 3,694.7
- Engine
- Continental Motors IO-550 N43B, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 2025 · 22 hours before
- Departed
- CGE · Cambridge, MD
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- W29 · Bay Bridge, runway 29, 2,714 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Satellite tracking device, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 27, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 108.7 total · 10.5 in this make and model · 47.2 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 12,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.03 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- W29, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KW29 301435Z AUTO 31005KT 10SM BKN120 23/17 A3003 RMK AO2 T02280167
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.