- Date
- July 1, 2025, 16:20 local (Jul 2, 2025, 00:20 UTC)
- Place
- Wasilla, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5169XChampion 7ECA
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Nose over/nose down
- 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
- 20250702014939A
- Case key
- 200460
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s excessive use of brakes during landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
Findings · 3
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 instructor pilot, seated in the back seat, reported that they had completed eleven landings in a tailwheel-equipped airplane. Five landings were touch-and-go, two were go-around and four were full stop-and-go. The instructor pilot reported that on the last landing the airplane touched down smoothly but he subsequently lost directional control, and inadvertently applied excessive braking, resulting in a nose over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the rudder, left wing struts and vertical stabilizer. The instructor pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5169X
- Reported as
- Champion 7ECA
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 676
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 8,807
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-C1, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jin Jin Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Jin Jin Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 2025
- Departed
- Z40 · Goose Bay, AK
- Airport
- Z40 · Goose Bay Airport, runway 26, 3,000 × 75 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 24, 2025
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 415 total · 50 in this make and model · 325 as pilot in command · 67 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 1.6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 8, 2024
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 674 total · 2 in this make and model · 616 as pilot in command · 147 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 2.8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.84 inHg
- Observed at
- PAWS, 14 nm away
- METAR
- PAWS 020056Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM FEW045 22/12 A2984 RMK AO2 SLP105 T02170117
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 72.3 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 N5169X · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.