- Date
- January 29, 2025, 14:17 local (22:17 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Barbara, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N124LZCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern base: Unknown or undetermined
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250129002179A
- Case key
- 199623
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On January 29, 2025, about 1417 Pacific standard time, a Cirrus Design Corp SR22T, N124LZ, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Santa Barbara, California. The two pilots were seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. A review of ADS-B data showed that the airplane departed Santa Barbara, Municipal Airport, (SBA), Santa Barbara, California. The airplane flew to the west about 10 minutes before they returned to the airport. The data showed that the pilots performed one touch and go landing on runway 15R and remained in the airport traffic pattern. ADS-B data ended about one mile north of the approach end of runway 15R, in an area consistent with a base turn to final turn. At the last data point, the airplane’s groundspeed was about 120 knots and was at an altitude of about 375 ft mean sea level. The airplane impacted an open field and a postimpact fire ensued that consumed most of the airframe. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed that the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System was activated. The airplane was recovered and retained for further examination.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N124LZ
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 1125
- Built
- 2015
- Airframe hours
- 973.5
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lima Zulu Aircraft Corp
- Registered owner
- Lima Zulu Aircraft Corp
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 31, 2024
- Airport
- SBA · Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, runway 15R, 4,184 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Stall warning system, ADS-B, Airframe parachute, Angle of attack indicator
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KSBA, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KSBA 292153Z 20008KT 10SM FEW025 14/08 A3010 RMK AO2 SLP194 T01440078 $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.