CEN26LA072 · Cirrus Design Corp SR22T
53KWD Cirrus Design Corp SR22T · Accident: loss of control on ground during takeoff
From an unrecorded airport to Georgetown Executive Airport at Johnny Gantt Field (GTU)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN26LA072
- 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
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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 Design Corp 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
- N53KH
- Operator
- 53KWD
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Georgetown Executive Airport at Johnny Gantt Field (GTU), Georgetown, TX
- Aircraft age
- About 3 years (built 2022)
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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 on ground
- 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
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 18, 2025, about 1255 central standard time, a Cirrus SR22T, N53KH, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Muleshoe, Texas. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. The pilot reported that the airplane departed runway 7 at Muleshoe Municipal Airport (2T1), Muleshoe, Texas. During the takeoff roll, about 50 to 55 kts, the airplane began to veer to the left. The pilot applied full right rudder, but the airplane continued to drift. He said that he had a slight vibration coming from the landing gear. He pulled back the throttle to abort the takeoff. Then the airplane pulled harder to the left. He put in full right brake and partial left brake to stop the airplane, but it continued left off the runway. During the runway excursion, the left wheel went over a drainage pipe, which caused the left gear to collapse and separate from the fuselage. The airplane came to rest on an embankment. Postaccident examination revealed that the left wing fuel tank was breached and fuel was leaking onto the ground. The airplane was retained for further examination. Reported wind at the time of the accident at Clovis, New Mexico, 23 miles northwest of the accident site was 060° at 15 knots gusting to 18 knots.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN26LA072
- Event ID
- 20260105202240
- Case number
- CEN26LA072
- 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: 547327fe1ddce5b5cd0814e98cc06fef2050f2deffca7a869a861ad3d5ebbd91; retrieved 2026-09-16T20:38:31.644Z.