- Date
- November 24, 2025, 10:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Zanesville, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7805GCessna 172
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR pattern base: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 14, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20251124020209A
- Case key
- 202058
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 pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from a power line during an approach to land.
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 pilot reported that while turning from the base leg to final approach, the airplane experienced a sudden loss of altitude and struck a powerline with the main landing gear. The airplane slowed until the wire broke. The pilot then pitched the nose of the airplane down and applied full power, regained control and landed without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right aileron. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7805G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (L)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259505
- Built
- 1970
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2025
- Departed
- Waterford, OH
- Destination
- 42I · Zanesville, OH
- Airport
- 42I · Parr, runway 28, 3,100 × 26 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic primary flight display, Handheld GPS
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
- 74
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- August 23, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 1,153 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,153 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 37 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.27 inHg
- Observed at
- ZZV, 7 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KZZV 241453Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 03/01 A3027 RMK AO2 SLP256 I3000 T00280006 53002=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 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.
Other investigations on N7805G · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.