Cirrus Design Corp SR22T accident near Sanford, NC
On July 7, 2025, a Cirrus Design Corp SR22T (airplane) was involved in an accident near Sanford, NC. 4 people died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- July 7, 2025
- Place
- Sanford, NC
- Aircraft
- Cirrus Design Corp SR22T · Airplane
- Injuries
- 4 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 35.507°N, 79.141°W
- NTSB ID
- 20250707200482
NTSB summary
On July 7, 2025, about 1330 eastern daylight time, a Cirrus SR22T, N5656M, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Sanford, North Carolina. The private pilot and three passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to preliminary flight track data, the airplane departed from Merrit Island Airport (COI), Merrit Island, Florida at 1103 with a destination of Raleigh Executive Jetport (TTA), Sanford, North Carolina. Preliminary ADS-B data showed the airplane stopped transmitting southeast of Palm Coast, Florida while over the Atlantic Ocean. Shortly thereafter, the pilot advised an air traffic controller that the airplane was having electrical problems, but it was not an emergency and he was planning on continuing to his destination via visual flight rules (VFR). According to an employee at the fixed-base operator (FBO) at TTA, the pilot’s wife, who was a passenger, called the FBO on her cell phone to report that they did not have navigational or communication equipment and requested assistance to find out which runway was actively being used and the wind speed and direction. The FBO employee made a radio call over the airport’s universal communications frequency (UNICOM) advising the pilots in the airport traffic pattern of the situation and he then spoke to the passenger again to give her the requested information. Shortly thereafter, the passenger told the FBO employee that the airplane was having engine problems and they needed to make a straight in emergency
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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.
