- Date
- September 28, 2025, 13:40 local (17:40 UTC)
- Place
- West Milford, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N283WTCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 18, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 201775
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Probable cause
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent failure to recover from a hard bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of directional control and runway excursion.
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 he was on a stabilized approach to land and that when he believed he had the appropriate sight picture, he reduced engine power and flared the airplane. The airplane then bounced and he attempted to recover the landing, but it bounced a second time and veered left of the runway centerline. The pilot aborted the landing and increased engine power, but the airplane veered further left. The pilot then reduced engine power and the airplane came to rest in bushes adjacent to the runway. The pilot-rated passenger reported that the pilot did not adequately “round out” the landing flare and the airplane bounced and yawed to the right. The pilot attempted to correct the yaw with excessive left and right aileron control inputs, and both of the airplane’s wing tips contacted the runway surface. The airplane then settled on the main landing gear and departed the runway to the left before it impacted an area of bushes resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. Neither the pilot nor the passenger reported any pre-accident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane were reported that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N283WT
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3938
- Built
- 2013
- Engine
- Continental Aerospace Technologies IO-550-N, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Airspeed Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 4N1 · Greenwood Lake, runway 06, 3,471 × 60 ft, asphalt
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
- 64
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Age
- 48
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Remote, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Restraint
- 4-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.05 inHg
- Observed at
- CDW, 15 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCDW 281753Z 30009KT 10SM CLR 29/14 A3005 RMK AO2 SLP179 T02940144 10294 20183 58010=
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 18, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.8 MB in all.