- Date
- April 10, 2025, 19:45 local (Apr 11, 2025, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Idaho Falls, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N190CGCessna 190
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250410003339A
- Case key
- 199996
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 directional control during the landing roll in crosswind conditions.
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 conducting a wheel landing the tailwheel equipped airplane, it bounced twice, and he applied nose down elevator pressure to arrest the bounces. While doing so, he relaxed left aileron input, and the left wing began to rise, and the crosswind pushed the airplane to the right. The pilot stated that at this point the airplane was unrecoverable and the airplane ground looped. During the ground loop, the left main landing gear separated, and the left wing and fuselage struck the ground which resulted in substantial damage to both. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing on runway 21 with wind from 170° at 11 knots. In a subsequent statement the pilot reported that the initial ground loop occurred because of a loss of aircraft control, but that the failure of the gear leg may have been due to a pre-existing corrosion he observed in the leg after the accident. However, during the removal of the airplane from the accident site the gear leg fracture surface was ground down, and the gear leg welded temporarily back into place. Therefore, a determination of the leg condition before the accident could not be made.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N190CG
- Reported as
- Cessna 190
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 7634
- Built
- 1950
- Airframe hours
- 3,470.6
- Engine
- Jacobs R755-b2, 275 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 4, 2024 · 12.7 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- IDA · Idaho Falls Rgnl, runway 03/21, 9,002 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, 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
- 57
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 20, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 758.3 total · 24.2 in this make and model · 687.1 as pilot in command · 9.7 in the last 90 days · 5.7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 3023.00 inHg
- Observed at
- KIDA, 0.1 nm away
- METAR
- KIDA 110153Z 17011KT 10SM CLR 21/M06 A3021 RMK AO2 SLP215 T02061056
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 26, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.2 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.