- Date
- September 9, 2025, 10:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Seymour, IN
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N357CPCessna 182T
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Abnormal runway contact
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 17, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration, Indianapolis FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250909017699A
- Case key
- 200967
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 flight instructor’s improper landing flare which resulted in a bounced landing and loss of control.
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 flight instructor stated that the instructional flight was the first flight on the second day of a five-day training program for the student pilot. The planned lesson for the flight included straight-and-level flight, turns, climbs, descents, and ground reference maneuvers. After completion of the maneuvers, the student pilot flew the traffic pattern for landing at the destination airport, and the flight controls were transferred to the flight instructor while the airplane was established on the final approach segment at 500 ft above ground level. Upon touchdown on the runway, the airplane bounced and turned sharply to the left. The flight instructor stated he attempted a go-around but was unable to increase airplane airspeed and regain airplane directional control. The flight instructor stated there was no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal airplane operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N357CP
- Reported as
- Cessna 182T
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18281509
- Built
- 2005
- Airframe hours
- 4,061
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Civil Air Patrol, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Civil Air Patrol, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 5, 2025
- Departed
- BAK · Columbus, IN
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- SER · Freeman Municipal Airport, runway 5, 6,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic multifunction display, Data recorder, Auto-pilot, ADS-B, Stall warning system, Onboard weather, Electronic primary flight 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
- 80
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 9, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 5,585 total · 800 in this make and model · 5,360 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 17 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- BAK, 21 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, 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.