- Date
- November 17, 2025, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Eastpoint, FL · In Swamp Approx 50' East of Runway
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N508WHCirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- 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
- 202020
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Probable cause
The pilot’s loss of airplane control during a go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s improper recovery from an aerodynamic stall.
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 purpose of the flight was to conduct practice instrument approaches at the departure airport before continuing to a nearby airport. The pilot reported that the glideslope for the practice approach appeared steeper than expected. During the approach, the pilot slowed the airplane, but became too slow, and attempted to accelerate to a normal approach airspeed. He noticed a gain in altitude and decided to abort the approach and initiated a go-around. During the go-around, the airplane pitched up and entered an aerodynamic stall. Due to the proximity to the ground, the pilot “pulled up” on the controls. The airplane then banked left, descended, and impacted terrain, which resulted in substantial damage to the empennage and fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N508WH
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4603
- Built
- 2018
- Airframe hours
- 787.6
- Engine
- Continental Motors IO-550-N68B, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Ram Air LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 10, 2025 · 31.1 hours before
- Departed
- F47 · Eastpoint, FL
- Destination
- AAF · Apalachicola, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- F47 · St George Island, runway 14, 3,339 × 65 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Auto-pilot, Data recorder, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 70
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Last flight review
- September 25, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 908 total · 765 in this make and model · 762 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- AAF, 7 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KAAF 171953Z AUTO 15008KT 10SM CLR 23/07 A2998 RMK AO1 SLP153 T02280072 $
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 19.6 MB in all.