Flight Crew Commercial; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 10; Flight Crew Total 3000; Flight Crew Type 300
Distraction
Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe; Ground Event / Encounter Object; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Incursion Runway; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action
Aircraft; Equipment / Tooling
I was landing in a Cirrus SR-22 when the carpet became entangled with the rudder pedal and the airplane started pulling hard to the right. I throttled up in an effort to get back into the air but was unsuccessful and hit a runway sign with the right wing flap at which point I lost control of the airplane. I was going approximately 70 knots when I pulled the throttle back to idle. The plane continued across taxiway bravo and I struck a taxi light with the right main tire and finally came to a stop on Runway 36R. Runway 36 right was also in use so I taxied off of the runway to the FBO as expeditiously as possible. In retrospect I probably would've been ahead not to try to get the airplane back into the air.
Cirrus pilot reported carpet in the aircraft becoming entangled with the rudder panel causing the pilot to lose control of the aircraft and hit objects while trying to get the aircraft back under control.