- Date
- July 28, 2025, 18:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bolivar, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N8243MCessna 182P
- Defining event
- Taxi: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250728010499A
- Case key
- 200664
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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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On July 28, 2025, at about 1800 central daylight time, a Cessna 182P, N8243M, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Bolivar, Missouri. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that when he advanced the throttle to initiate a taxi away from his hangar, he heard a loud popping sound immediately followed by flames both inside and outside the engine cowling. The pilot quickly closed the fuel shut-off valve, turned the master switch to the off position, and exited towards his nearby vehicle. The airplane was fully engulfed in fire by the time the pilot returned with a fire extinguisher from his vehicle. Postaccident examination revealed an engine fuel primer line melted and fused to the alternator output wire (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Engine Fuel Primer Line (upper) and Alternator Positive Cable (lower) The airplane and associated components were retained for further examination.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8243M
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18264572
- Built
- 1976
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airport
- M17
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.
Weather
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.13 inHg
- Observed at
- KSGF, 22 nm away
- METAR
- KSGF 282252Z 28008KT 10SM FEW050 35/22 A3013 RMK AO2 SLP185 T03500217 $
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.