- Date
- July 28, 2025, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Inhama, OR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N71879Cessna 182M
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- 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
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20250728010829A
- Case key
- 200717
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from trees while taxiing, which resulted in a wing strike.
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 reported that after landing he performed a full stop and taxied the airplane back to the departure end of the runway for takeoff. During this time he elected to taxi the airplane on the far left side of the runway to avoid soft terrain. The left wing impacted a tree while he was attempting to maneuver around rocks, which resulted in substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no unknown mechanical anomalies or malfunctions that precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N71879
- Reported as
- Cessna 182M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18259789
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 6,172.4
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-D, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- MYL High Flying Club
- Registered owner
- MYL High Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 14, 2024 · 132 hours before
- Departed
- MYL · McCall, ID
- Airport
- 25U · Memaloose Usfs, runway 17/35, 3,300 × 120 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Auto-pilot
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
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 25, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 430 total · 173 in this make and model · 360 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 65 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 31.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KMYL, 41 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 14, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 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 N71879 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.