- Date
- September 19, 2025, 08:20 local (12:20 UTC)
- Place
- Monterey, VA · Grass airstrip
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N365EDLamphere David A Wittman Buttercup
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Landing area overshoot
- 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
- 20250919018359A
- Case key
- 201048
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 attain a proper touchdown point while landing, which resulted in a runway overrun.
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 reported that he overflew the airport to observe the runway and wind direction before beginning a final approach. During the landing on the 2,300-ft-long turf runway, the airplane floated and landed more than halfway down the runway. He applied the brakes but was unable to stop. The airplane exited the runway, descended an embankment, and impacted a vacant concrete building before coming to rest in a grassy area about 180 ft from the departure end of the runway. The airplane’s fuselage and 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
- N365ED
- Reported as
- Lamphere David A Wittman Buttercup
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- DAL002
- Built
- 2020
- Airframe hours
- 196.8
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Condition · February 24, 2025 · 35.6 hours before
- Departed
- CJR · Culpeper, VA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 7VA9 · HANNAH Field, runway 04, 2,300 × 75 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 77
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- July 22, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,649.4 total · 197.8 in this make and model · 162,706 as pilot in command · 14.1 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- SHD, 34 nm away
- METAR
- KSHD 191215Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 12/12 A3012 RMK AO2 T01160116
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.2 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.