Monday, September 13, 2021

Cirrus SR22, N989HK: Incidents occurred September 10, 2021 and January 07, 2021

Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Farmingdale, New York

September 10, 2021:  Aircraft landed long and crashed into a fence at East Hampton Airport (KHTO), Suffolk County, New York. 

Glacier Aircraft Leasing LLC


Date: 10-SEP-21
Time: 18:34:00Z
Regis#: N989HK
Aircraft Make: CIRRUS
Aircraft Model: SR22
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: EAST HAMPTON
State: NEW YORK

Unhappy Landing

A first-time visitor to the East Hampton Airport had trouble landing his single-engine plane last Friday afternoon, crashing it through a security fence and onto Daniel's Hole Road. Police responded to the scene, blocking the road for some time, and the Federal Aviation Administration was contacted to investigate.

The skies were clear but the winds had kicked up by the time Jefferson McClane of Orlando, Fla., was attempting to land his Cirrus SR22, shortly before 3 p.m. According to a police report, both wings and the nose of the plane sustained damage, but there were no injuries to either the pilot or his passenger, who had taken off from a Norfolk, Va., airport at around 1 p.m.

Jim Brundige, the airport manager, said by email on Tuesday that "for some reason that has yet to be determined," the pilot was unable to make a full stop on the secondary runway, known as Runway 34.

"The physical damage does not appear to be significant," Mr. Brundige said. "The fenceposts are frangible. But with aircraft, the full extent of damage cannot be determined until there is a thorough mechanical inspection of the plane."

He said there were no fuel spills as a result of the accident. 





A small plane carrying a pilot and one passenger overshot the runway at East Hampton Airport on Friday afternoon, breaking through a wooden fence and coming to rest across Daniel’s Hole Road.

Jim Brundige, the airport’s director who was at the scene, said there were no injuries and the Cirrus SR22 was towed back to the hangar area.

Mr. Brundige said the plane was attempting to land on runway 34 when it got caught up in the gusty wind, and the pilot was unable to complete his landing safely.

The name of the pilot was not immediately available, although Mr. Brundige said the plane was from Orlando, Florida.

The East Hampton Fire Department responded to the scene, blocking off the road for about a half hour until the plane was towed back across the road and emergency vehicles cleared from the scene.


Federal Aviation Administration / Flight Standards District Office; Orlando, Florida

January 07, 2021:  Aircraft landed and veered off runway into the grass at Orlando Executive Airport (KORL), Orange County, Florida.

Glacier Aircraft Leasing LLC


Date: 07-JAN-21
Time: 16:46:00Z
Regis#: N989HK
Aircraft Make: CIRRUS
Aircraft Model: SR22
Event Type: INCIDENT
Highest Injury: NONE
Aircraft Missing: No
Damage: UNKNOWN
Activity: PERSONAL
Flight Phase: LANDING (LDG)
Operation: 91
City: ORLANDO
State: FLORIDA

3 comments:

  1. TWICE!?

    ..and the genius flew direct from southern Jersey to HTO in a single. That's a LOT of water.

    Maybe it's time to find another hobby?

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    1. Plane does lots of flying, looks more like a charter flight profile than a hobby.

      Castering nose wheel that can only be steered by differential braking after the rudder effectiveness drops off leads to frequent Cirrus runway veer-off excursions, so the January incident was inevitable.

      Having a veer-off is just a matter of time for every Cirrus due to the design choice that were made.

      https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N989HK

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  2. East Hampton Airport (KHTO)

    Runway 16/34: 2060 x 75 ft. (incident runway)
    Runway 10/28: 4255 x 100 ft.

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