- Date
- August 26, 2025, 20:06 local (Aug 27, 2025, 00:06 UTC)
- Place
- Montauk, NY
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N88SPCirrus Design SR20
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 2025
- 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
- 20250826015749A
- Case key
- 200912
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to verify the wind direction and maintain an appropriate approach speed, which resulted in a long landing and subsequent runway excursion.
Findings · 4
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
Shortly after sunset, the pilot overflew the destination airport to ensure that there was no wildlife on the runway and to check the direction of the windsock. The windsock was dimly lit, and because there was an airplane lined up on one of airport’s runways, he assumed that the wind was favoring that runway. He approached the runway but performed a go-around because he was not lined up with the runway. On the second attempt, he noted that the airplane’s speed was high and as he touched down on the runway, the airplane bounced. On the second bounce, he applied the brakes, and the airplane began to skid before overrunning the runway and impacting vegetation, which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane’s wings. The pilot reported that after the accident, the operator who had rented the airplane to him reviewed the flight data recorded by the airplane’s avionics, which showed that he had landed with a 6-knot tailwind. The pilot also reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88SP
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 8861
- Airframe hours
- 789.1
- Engine
- Lycoming Engines IO-390-C3B6, 215 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Nassau Flyers
- Registered owner
- Sp Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 25, 2025
- Departed
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MTP · Montauk, runway 06, 3,246 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Airframe parachute, Angle of attack indicator, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, ADS-B
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 1, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 261 total · 261 in this make and model · 141 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Injuries
- None
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 0 total · 0 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 230° at 6 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MTP, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KMTP 262354Z AUTO 23006KT 22/15 A3000 RMK AO1 SLP159 T02220150 10272 20217 53003 $=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.4 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.