NTSB Factual Report

On August 19, 2018, about 2019 central daylight time, a Cirrus SR22 T airplane, N1133T, impacted obstructions when the airplane exited runway 14 during a landing at the Granbury Regional Airport (GDJ), near Granbury, Texas. The private pilot sustained minor injuries. The airplane sustained substantial wing and fuselage damage during the runway excursion. The airplane was registered to and operated by the pilot as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Dusk visual meteorological conditions prevailed in the area about the time of the accident, and the flight was not operated on a flight plan. The local flight originated from GDJ about 2149.

According to preliminary information, the purpose of the flight was to practice an instrument flight rules approach. The pilot checked all flight controls for full movement and then departed from runway 14 to the North. He set autopilot to intercept the area navigation approach to runway 14 at its initial approach fix. The auto pilot intercepted the approach normally and the airplane made a procedure turn to intercept the approaches' glidepath. The glidepath was flown down to minimums and a go around was established. The go around button was used which suspend the landing sequence on the computer. During the climb to 2,700 ft, a waypoint was set manually to reestablish computer sequencing. Upon arrival at the waypoint, the autopilot was disengaged using the panel autopilot button. The pilot subsequently proceeded into the downwind leg of the pattern for runway 14. All flight controls seemed to perform normally. The right-hand turn to base and right-hand turn to final were made normally. On final minimal rudder inputs were made. As the pilot started to flare, he started putting in more rudder inputs. However, he could not depress the left rudder pedal fully. The airplane touched down about 80 kts on the main landing gear while the pilot was holding all the left rudder he could. The airplane started to veer to the right and continued off the runway until impacting a ditch, fence, and tree.