- Date
- August 2, 2025, 11:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Warren, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2252TCessna A185E
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Ground collision
- 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
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20250802016479A
- Case key
- 200711
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to adequately compensate for a wind gust during the departure roll, which resulted in a loss of directional control and a runway excursion.
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 stated that during takeoff, the airplane encountered a large gust of wind. The airplane was pushed to the left of the runway’s center and continued off the edge of the runway. The left wing collided with trees, which resulted in substantial damage to the wings and fuselage. The pilot stated that there were no pre impact mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2252T
- Reported as
- Cessna A185E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-1410
- Built
- 1968
- Engine
- Continental IO-520D, 285 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Daniel Fandler
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 1, 2025
- Destination
- 3U2 · Johnson Creek, ID
- Airport
- 3U1 · Warren, runway 12, 2,766 × 50 ft, dirt
- 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
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 5, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 30,000 total · 750 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.31 inHg
- Observed at
- KMYL, 29 nm away
- METAR
- KMYL 021751Z AUTO 27008KT 10SM CLR 23/08 A3031 RMK AO2 SLP219 T02280083 10233 20089 52001
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 17, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 515 KB 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.