- Date
- July 26, 2025, 18:50 local (Jul 27, 2025, 01:50 UTC)
- Place
- Tucson Estates, AZ
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N42725Cessna 182L
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Flight instrument malf/fail
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 20, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250726009599A
- Case key
- 200647
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 inability to stop the airplane on the runway during a rejected takeoff for undetermined reasons, which resulted in the airplane’s impact with a ditch.
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 stated that he performed a preflight inspection and engine run and noted no defects with the airplane’s brakes or flight instruments. When the airplane was about halfway down the runway during the takeoff roll, the pilot saw that the airspeed indicator was not functioning and decided to abort the takeoff. The pilot moved the throttle to idle and applied the brakes, but the airplane did not slow as expected, and the airplane continued to roll to the end of the runway. Despite maximum braking efforts, the airplane overran the end of the runway and impacted a drainage culvert. The pilot and passengers exited the airplane before it was destroyed by a postcrash fire that originated from the engine area. Though the pilot reported malfunctions of the airspeed indicator and brakes, the postcrash fire destroyed most of the airplane, and precluded an examination of these systems. As a result, the reasons for the reported failure of the airspeed indicator and brakes could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42725
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259165
- Built
- 1968
- Airframe hours
- 3,555
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 17, 2025 · 41.9 hours before
- Airport
- RYN · Ryan Field Airport, runway 33, 4,010 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, 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
- 44
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- BasicMed
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 102 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KRYN, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KRYN 270045Z 33009KT 10SM CLR 39/M04 A2986=
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 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.