- Date
- August 10, 2025, 14:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Goodland, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N502WFAir Tractor AT-502B
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 23, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA - Wichita FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250810010079A
- Case key
- 200748
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing and go-around with variable wind direction and speed.
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 stated that during the landing flare the airplane suddenly pitched up and climbed about 25 feet. She reported that after she re-stabilized, the nose of the airplane suddenly yawed 15-20° to the right. She corrected the nose back to align with the runway centerline and the nose suddenly yawed 15-20° to the left. She attempted to go around by adding engine power, but the airplane yawed about 90° to the right, impacted the ground and slid across the grass resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The pilot reported that she believed a dust devil may have been the cause of the airplane upset. According to a Surface Analysis chart, a surface wind trough was observed near the accident site around the time of the accident. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operations.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N502WF
- Reported as
- Air Tractor AT-502B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 502B-2646
- Built
- 2008
- Airframe hours
- 7,186
- Engine
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A-34AG, 750 horsepower, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 137
- Operator
- Midwest Custom Ag Aviation, Inc
- Registered owner
- Bank Of Utah Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 30, 2023
- Airport
- GLD · Renner Fld/Goodland Muni, runway 12/30, 5,499 × 100 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Onboard weather, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 48
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 4, 2024
- Seat
- Single
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 2,927 total · 296 in this make and model · 2,559 as pilot in command · 258 in the last 90 days · 178 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.08 inHg
- Observed at
- KGLD
- METAR
- KGLD 102153Z AUTO 13008KT 10SM FEW045 27/16 A3008 RMK AO2 SLP145 T02720161
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 23, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.