- Date
- August 30, 2025, 02:10 local (07:10 UTC)
- Place
- Baldwin City, KS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N89585Cessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Runway excursion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- Case key
- 200916
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Probable cause
The pilot’s decision to continue the night landing without runway lights which resulted in the runway overrun.
Findings · 4
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 he rented the accident airplane for the purpose of gaining night cross-country flight experience. He flew to two other airports and made successful landings at each airport. On the accident flight, as the airplane approached the airport, the pilot attempted to activate the pilot-controlled runway lights but was unsuccessful. He elected to continue the landing attempt to the grass runway. He stated that the landing approach was on-speed per the airplane flight manual, and he touched down on the runway but was unable to stop the airplane before it impacted trees at the end of the runway. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operations. The airplane received substantial damage to the left wing. The destination airport had a 3,303 ft. by 80 ft. turf runway equipped with non-standard low-intensity runway lighting. The airport manager reported that the functionality of the pilot-controlled runway lighting system was confirmed following the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89585
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282796
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 6,588
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235 SERIES, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Vinland Flight School LLC
- Registered owner
- Vinland Flight School LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 23, 2025
- Departed
- ICT · Wichita, KS
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- K64 · Vinland Valley Aerodrome, runway 16/34, 3,030 × 80 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 28, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 134 total · 6 in this make and model · 52 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- KLWC, 10 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLWC 300652Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 14/13 A3006 RMK AO1 SLP173 T01440133=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 14, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 MB in all.
Other investigations on N89585 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.