- Date
- July 23, 2025, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- New Hudson, MI
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1812JPiper PA-28-140
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Attempted remediation/recovery
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 9, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250723010669A
- Case key
- 200617
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 student pilot’s improper landing flare and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action during landing that resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.
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 flight instructor and student pilot completed takeoff and landing practice at another airport and were returning to the original departure airport. The flight instructor stated that the student pilot had performed well in his takeoff and landing performance, and the flight instructor had confidence in the student pilot’s ability to successfully land at the destination airport even though its runway was narrower than runways that the student pilot had practiced on. The flight instructor stated that the approach for landing was stabilized down to the runway threshold. During landing flare, the airplane bounced and turned left, at which time the flight instructor took the flight controls from the student pilot. The flight instructor initiated an aborted landing, but the left wing was stalled, and the airplane descended and impacted the ground. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the wings and fuselage. The flight instructor stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1812J
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-24240
- Built
- 1968
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Echo Aviation II LLC
- Registered owner
- Echo Aviation II LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- Y47 · Oakland Southwest Airport, runway 26, 3,128 × 40 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 33
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 17, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 279 total · 28 in this make and model · 198 as pilot in command · 28 in the last 90 days · 28 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 53
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 14 total · 14 in this make and model · 14 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.17 inHg
- Observed at
- PTK, 13 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 9, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.5 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.