Cirrus Aircraft SR22 accident near Tomball, TX
On September 1, 2022, a Cirrus Aircraft SR22 (airplane) was involved in an accident near Tomball, TX. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- September 1, 2022
- Place
- Tomball, TX
- Aircraft
- Cirrus Aircraft SR22 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 2 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 30.083°N, 95.557°W
- NTSB ID
- 20220902105849
Official records · CEN22FA405
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
Air traffic control records
- Transcript Of Interviews: Transcript (PDF), on ntsb.gov
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn September 1, 2022, about 1707 central daylight time, a Cirrus Aircraft SR22 airplane, N420SS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Tomball, Texas. The flight instructor was fatally injured; the pilot and passenger sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. Earlier in the week, on August 29, 2022, the pilot accepted delivery of his factory-new Cirrus SR22 airplane at the Cirrus Aircraft Vision Center located at the McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS), near Knoxville, Tennessee. He had no previous flying experience in a Cirrus airplane besides a 30-minute demonstration flight that was flown about 1.5 years before the accident. As part of his purchase agreement, the pilot was scheduled to receive transition training in his new airplane for the remainder of the week. The pilot’s first interaction with his assigned Cirrus Aircraft Factory Flight Instructor was the night before he accepted delivery of his airplane. During the phone call, the flight instructor asked what the pilot wanted to accomplish during his flight training, and the pilot replied that he needed to learn how to fly instrument approaches and to make takeoff and landings in the airplane. According to the pilot, his first flight in the airplane consisted of a takeoff, traffic pattern, and landing. No flight instruction was provided during this initial 10 to15 minute delivery flight that was completed with another Cirrus Aircraft pilot. After the pilot accepted delivery of his airplane, the as
Probable cause
The flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the flight, which allowed for an unintentional movement of the mixture control to the cutoff position that remained unnoticed until the airplane lost engine power due to fuel starvation and descended below the minimum altitude required for a normal deployment of the airframe parachute system. Contributing to the accident was the impairment of the p
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
