- Date
- April 24, 2025, 17:40 local (Apr 25, 2025, 00:40 UTC)
- Place
- Fullerton, CA · KFUL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N415DGCirrus Design SR22T
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250424005219A
- Case key
- 200175
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, which resulted in a runway overrun and collision with terrain.
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 of the airplane reported that he was conducting a 180° power-off approach and landing. While landing on the 3,121 ft long runway, the airplane touched down about halfway down the runway. The pilot was unable to stop the airplane within the available runway length, and the airplane exited the departure end of the runway and struck a grassy berm, which resulted in the airplane’s nose gear collapse, and substantial damage to the firewall. The pilot initially reported that the brake system did not function as they expected; however, a brake system examination did not reveal any preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N415DG
- Reported as
- Cirrus Design SR22T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 0553
- Built
- 2013
- Airframe hours
- 3,007
- Engine
- Cont Motor TSIO-550-K, 315 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Truongton Aviation LLC, doing business as TruongTon Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Truongton Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 13, 2024 · 20 hours before
- Departed
- KFUL · Fullerton, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- FUL · Fullerton Muni, runway 24, 3,121 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display, Onboard weather, Stall warning system, Video recording device, ADS-B, Airframe parachute
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
- 40
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 14, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- None
- Flight hours
- 475.6 total · 365 in this make and model · 340.3 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,398 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- KFUL
- METAR
- KFUL 240053Z 20006KT 10SM OVC031 17/01 A2993 RMK AO2 SLP133 T01670006
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 11, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 916 KB 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.