ERA22LA061 · Eric A Munzer DORNIER D027-B2
Eric A Munzer DORNIER D027-B2 · Accident: runway excursion during landing
From Raleigh Executive Jetport (TTA) to Blue Ridge Airport (MTV)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA22LA061
- 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
Eric A Munzer DORNIER D027-B2
- Aircraft type
- Eric A Munzer DORNIER D027-B2
- 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
- N27TQ
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Raleigh Executive Jetport (TTA), Sanford, NCTo Blue Ridge Airport (MTV), Martinsville, VA
- Aircraft age
- About 65 years (built 1956)
- 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
- Landing · landing roll
- 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
- Runway excursion
- 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 oper/perf/capability
- Environmental issues › Physical environment
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot reported that during the landing rollout in his tailwheel-equipped airplane, the airplane began to drift left. He attempted to maintain control to avoid a ground loop and continued to keep the nose straight as the airplane departed the runway into the grass. During the runway excursion, the airplane encountered a ditch that was hidden from view by tall grass, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing rollout, which resulted in a runway excursion and an impact with a ditch.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA22LA061
- Event ID
- 20211116104252
- Case number
- ERA22LA061
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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, cause areas. 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: e665121c3cf0e40453c596beab3af593b78dab2c0b0b9b159acba6db0a12cd01; retrieved 2026-09-16T14:44:51.477Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure, destination. TTA is Raleigh Exec Jetport at Sanford, North Carolina; the city name is misspelled 'Standford' in the record. MTV is Blue Ridge Airport at Martinsville, Virginia, which is also the accident location on this record; the state is recorded as NC.