- Date
- September 19, 2025, 12:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Palmer, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N803RToci Gabe C G Supa
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 21, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250919018969A
- Case key
- 201873
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during the go-around.
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 pilot reported that, while practicing stop-and-go landings on a remote gravel bar in a tailwheel-equipped airplane, the airplane encountered a wind shift during the landing flare. The pilot added power and attempted to go-around; however, the airplane got too slow, and the left wing dropped. The airplane subsequently impacted terrain, which caused substantial damage to the right wing and horizontal stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N803R
- Reported as
- Toci Gabe C G Supa
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 001001
- Built
- 2025
- Airframe hours
- 44
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360C2A-EXP, 214 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · May 1, 2025 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- 9AK6 · Wasilla, AK
- Destination
- 9AK6 · Wasilla, AK
- Airport
- NONE · Gravel Bar
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Angle of attack indicator, 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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 12, 2025
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 93.1 total · 40.8 in this make and model · 41.3 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.20 inHg
- Observed at
- PAAQ, 15 nm away
- METAR
- PAAQ 192053Z 00000KT 10SM SCT100 11/07 A2920 RMK AO2 SLP891 T01110067 58017 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 22, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.0 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.