Cirrus SR22 N1133T

Summary

On 20 August 2018 at about 01:19 local time, a Cirrus SR22 registered N1133T was involved in an accident near Granbury, Texas, United States. One person was on board and one 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

20 August 2018 at 01:19

Classification

Accident

Location

Granbury, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Granbury Rgnl (GDJ)

Coordinates

32.4444, -97.8169

Aircraft

Cirrus SR22

Registration

N1133T

Category

Airplane

Year built

2015

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Granbury → Granbury

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Dusk

NTSB number

CEN18LA341

1 person had minor injuries.

The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a crosswind landing, which resulted in the airplane exiting the runway and impacting a ditch, tree, and fence.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot was practicing instrument flight rules approaches and was returning for a landing with a light crosswind during dusk visual meteorological conditions. He disengaged the autopilot using the panel autopilot button. All flight controls seemed to perform normally. The right turn to base and right turn to final were made normally. On final approach, the pilot made minimal rudder inputs. As the pilot started to flare the airplane, he started putting in more rudder inputs. However, he could not depress the left rudder pedal fully. The airplane touched down about 80 knots on the main landing gear while the pilot was holding all the left rudder he could. The airplane started to veer to the right and continued off the runway, where it impacted a ditch, fence, and tree; the airplane sustained substantial damage to a wing and the fuselage. The pilot indicated that the yaw damper was on when he landed. However, the airplane was equipped with a recoverable data module that recorded the flight's configuration and navigation data, which indicated that the yaw damper was off about 1/4 mile before the landing runway threshold. Given the available information, the pilot likely did not maintain directional control of the airplane during the crosswind landing.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.