- Date
- May 17, 2025, 21:00 local (May 18, 2025, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Henderson, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N220JPPilatus PC-12/47
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- 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
- 20250517005879A
- Case key
- 200182
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 maintain directional control while landing with a quartering tailwind.
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 he was landing at night with a quartering tailwind. Shortly after touchdown, about the time that he placed the power control lever into reverse position, the airplane veered right. He successfully brought the airplane back to the runway centerline after applying left rudder control. However, about 1 to 3 seconds later, the airplane veered hard right. The pilot tried to bring the airplane back towards the runway centerline again, but the airplane veered off the right side of the runway and travelled through gravel between the runway and the taxiway. Subsequently, the airplane struck a storm trench and substantially damaged the right wing. The airport’s automated weather observation station reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 240° at 13 knots, gusting to 20 knots. The pilot landed the airplane onto runway 17R. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N220JP
- Reported as
- Pilatus PC-12/47
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 787
- Built
- 2006
- Airframe hours
- 8,371.6
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT-6A-67B, 1,200 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Dragonglass LLC
- Registered owner
- Dragonglass LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- AAIP · January 30, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- HND · Henderson Executive Airport, runway 17R, 6,501 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Angle of attack indicator, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- February 4, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 3,176 total · 2,853 in this make and model · 2,140 as pilot in command · 106 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 240° at 13 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.70 inHg
- Observed at
- HND
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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.