CEN13LA212 · Cirrus SR22T
Cirrus SR22T · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Marv Skie / Lincoln County Airport (Y14) to Chandler Field (KAXN)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN13LA212
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cirrus SR22T
- Aircraft type
- Cirrus SR22
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1967N
- Operator
- Hamid Abbasi
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Marv Skie / Lincoln County Airport (Y14), Marv Skie, SDTo Chandler Field (KAXN), Alexandria, MN
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach · VFR pattern downwind
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, not marked as estimated; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
About 18 months prior to the accident flight, the airplane underwent maintenance to remove and replace both the left and right flaps. While on pattern downwind, the pilot adjusted flaps from up to half, at which time the right flap rod end separated from the right flap actuation fitting. The pilot initiated a climb and struggled to maintain roll control. He briefly adjusted flaps to the up position in an attempt to alleviate the problem, and then adjusted the flaps back to half. The pilot then adjusted the flaps from half to full and the airplane began to roll right due to flap asymmetry, eventually reaching 86 degrees of right bank. The airplane began to stall and the pilot initiated the airplane’s ballistic parachute recovery system about 509 feet above ground level. Subsequently, the airplane descended to the ground with the aid of the parachute and came to rest upright on a frozen lake. A postflight examination of the right flap rod end area revealed the mounting bolt and washer were missing and lying under the airplane. No evidence of a safety wire was present on the mounting bolt or on the right flap actuation fitting. The safety wire was most likely not installed when the right flap was reinstalled and went unnoticed for over 211 hours of operation. During this time there was a subsequent annual inspection at 114 hours prior to the accident and a pre-buy inspection at 101 hours prior to the accident.
Probable cause
The failure of maintenance personnel to install a safety wire during reinstallation of the right flap, which led to the separation of the right flap rod from the right flap actuation fitting during flap extension. Contributing to the accident were inadequate inspections of the right flap during subsequent annual, prebuy, and preflight inspections.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN13LA212
- Event ID
- 20130329X73643
- Case number
- CEN13LA212
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 63e25a423c14debbb34c31be5f1de867f427715d617ec69eb397681d66d8f63a; retrieved 2026-09-15T21:11:20.789Z.