- Date
- January 8, 2026, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Philippi, WV · Down embankment off end of RWY 26
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N29UACirrus Design SR22
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- 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
- FAA report
- 20260108000199A
- Case key
- 202274
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 obtain the proper touchdown point, which resulted in a runway overrun.
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 reported that while approaching the 3,275-ft-long runway, he configured the airplane with full flaps. He thought that the airplane touched down approximately halfway down the runway, after which he applied braking; however, he was unable to stop the airplane on the paved surface. The airplane departed the runway, traveled through grass, down an embankment, and through an airport perimeter fence before coming to rest upright. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing. A postaccident examination of the accident site by an FAA inspector revealed that the airplane touched down about 557 ft before the departure end of the runway. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N29UA
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1282
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 2,030
- Engine
- Continential Motors IO-550-N, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- N29ny LLC
- Registered owner
- N29ny LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 1, 2025
- Departed
- BLM · Farmingdale, NJ
- Destination
- LEX · Lexington, KY
- Airport
- 79D · Philippi/Barbour County Rgnl, runway 26, 3,275 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Auto-pilot, Airframe parachute, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display
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
- 61
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 25, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,100 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,930 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- CKB, 11 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KCKB 081653Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 08/04 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP212 T00780044
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.5 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.