- Date
- September 13, 2024, 19:00 local (Sep 14, 2024, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Buckland, AK · River bed
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5407BCessna 182
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20240913012959A
- Case key
- 195177
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that, during the landing roll out on a remote gravel bar, the airplane was not properly aligned with the landing site. The pilot attempted to correct the alignment; however, the airplane ground looped. The airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing and rudder. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5407B
- Reported as
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 33407
- Airframe hours
- 4,875
- Engine
- Continental O-470R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 2024 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- PAGA · Galena, AK
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 8, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 10,567 total · 139 in this make and model · 8,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 54 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.77 inHg
- Turbulence
- Light
- Observed at
- PABL, 64 nm away
- METAR
- PABL 140256Z AUTO 20006KT 10SM BKN055 BKN065 12/02 A2977 RMK AO2 RAE07 SLP082 P0000 60000 T01170022 55001
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on June 5, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N5407B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.