# Accident 20250412005109A: Cessna 182B, Girdwood, AK, April 12, 2025

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 12, 2025, 11:50 local time
- Place: Girdwood, AK
- Airport: Girdwood Airport
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Touchdown
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 60.9683° N, 149.1207° W: From the FAA
- Aircraft: N916GG, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N916GG) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 182B (registry code 2072706, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182B
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 2
- Pilot certificates: Private pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 120 total, 95 in this make and model, 25 in the last 90 days
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20250412005109A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

ON APRIL 12, 2025 THE PIC OF A 1959 CESSNA 182, ON HIS FIRST FLIGHT AFTER HIS PRIVATE PILOT CHECKRIDE WITH A PASSENGER RECEIVED A FULL WEATHER BRIEFING  FROM THE FLIGHT SERVICE STATION AT PALMER AIRPORT FOR A FLIGHT FROM PALMER ALASKA TO GIRDWOOD ALASKA. AFTER PRE-FLIGHT THE PILOT MET WITH THE PASSENGER AND GAVE A PASSENGER BRIEFING. ON DEPARTURE THE PILOT ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO TAKE A MORE DIRECT ROUTE BUT THE CLOUDS WERE LOWER THAN EXPECTED AND DETERMINED A ROUTE OVER ANCHORAGE THROUGH THE TURNAGAIN ARM WOULD BE BETTER. THE AIRCRAFT TOOK OFF AT 1037AM IN APPROACHING THE GIRDWOOD AREA THE PILOT CONTACTED FLIGHT SERVICES VIA THE RCO TO GET UPDATED INFORMATION FOR GIRDWOOD. ON ARRIVING AT THE AIRPORT THE PILOT NOTICED SOME SNOW ON THE RUNWAY AND DID A LOW PASS. THE PILOT HAD LANDED WITH SMALL AMOUNTS OF SNOW PREVIOUSLY IN THIS AIRPLANE WITH THE INSTRUCTOR AND FELT THAT BASED ON THE VISUAL CHECK HE WAS SAFE TO DO THE LANDING. AFTER THE TRICYCLE GEAR AIRPLANE WITHOUT SKIIS TOUCHED DOWN THE NOSE GEAR WAS BURIED INTO THE SNOW THAT WAS DEEPER THAN HE EXPECTED CAUSING THE AIRPLANE TO FLIP ON ITS BACK. AFTER THE ACCIDENT BOTH DOORS WERE JAMMED AND THERE WAS FUEL IN THE COCKPIT. THE PILOT AND THE PASSENGER EXECUTED AN EVACUATION OUT THE PASSENGER DOOR. THE INJURIES WE MOSTLY SCRAPES EXCEPT THE PILOT RECEIVED A MINOR INJURY ON THE BACK OF THE HEAD FROM THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER NOT BEING SECURELY FASTED TO THE AIRPLANE.

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