Cessna 550 N622PG

Summary

On 27 September 2015 at about 23:06 local time, a Cessna 550 registered N622PG was involved in an accident near Sarasota, Florida, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

27 September 2015 at 23:06

Classification

Accident

Location

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Sarasota/Bradenton Intl (SRQ)

Coordinates

27.3956, -82.5544

Aircraft

Cessna 550

Registration

N622PG

Category

Airplane

Year built

1978

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Boca Raton → Sarasota

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA15LA380

2 people had minor injuries.

The pilot’s failure to attain the proper touchdown point and to adequately slow the airplane within the available runway, which resulted in a runway overrun.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airline transport pilot was landing at the destination airport at the conclusion of a personal flight. Although the pilot reported that the airplane touched down near the threshold of the runway and that he used speed brakes, brakes, and thrust reversers to slow the airplane, review of a surveillance video revealed that the airplane touched down about 1,700 ft past the runway threshold of the 5,000-ft-long runway and that the thrust reversers were not deployed during the recorded portion of the landing roll. The airplane's tires left over 1,300 ft of skid marks before it overran the departure end of the runway, which resulted in substantial damage. While the pilot stated that the brakes had malfunctioned during the landing, examination and postaccident testing of the brakes revealed no evidence of any mechanical anomalies. Based on the available evidence, it is likely that the pilot landed the airplane well beyond the runway threshold and did not apply adequate braking effort until insufficient runway remained to stop the airplane on the paved surface.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.