- Date
- August 24, 2025, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Charleston, WV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N241MUCirrus Design SR20
- Defining event
- Landing: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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
- 20250824011959A
- Case key
- 200976
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
A flat left main landing gear tire, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion during landing.
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 flight instructor reported that he and the student pilot were on the return leg of a cross-country flight. As the student pilot was landing the airplane at their home airport, the touchdown was normal, but the airplane immediately veered left. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and attempted to correct, but the airplane continued off the left side of the runway. The left wing struck a runway sign, resulting substantial damage to the left wing, and the airplane came to rest upright in a grass area off the left side of the runway. Examination of the wreckage by a mechanic and a Federal Aviation Administration inspector revealed a flat spot and gashes on the left main landing gear tire, consistent with the tire being flat upon touchdown.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N241MU
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR20
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 10052
- Built
- 2024
- Airframe hours
- 508
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-390-C3B6, 215 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Marshall University
- Registered owner
- Marshall University
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 22, 2025 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- PKB · Parkersburg, WV
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- CRW · West Virginia Intl Yeager, runway 23, 6,715 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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
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
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 27, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 943 total · 708 in this make and model · 845 as pilot in command · 139 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 21
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 50 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- CRW
- METAR
- METAR KCRW 242354Z 22005KT 10SM SCT110 27/15 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP102 T02670150 10311 20267 53000 $=
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 17.6 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.