- Date
- August 27, 2025, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1755DCessna 170A
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- 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
- FAA-FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250827010809I
- Case key
- 200921
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing 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 flight instructor reported that while landing with a crosswind the airplane bounced and while airborne she felt a wind gust. Subsequently, the airplane touched down and veered to the right into the wind. The flight instructor took control of the airplane and applied full left rudder then applied left brake. Despite her efforts the airplane ground looped, and the left wing contacted the runway surface resulting in substantial damage to the left wing. The flight instructor reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that could have precluded normal operation. At about the time of the accident, the airplane was landing on runway 16R, with the wind variable from 230° to 270° at 6-8 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1755D
- Reported as
- Cessna 170A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20198
- Built
- 1951
- Engine
- Continental Motors O-300-A, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Boeing Employees Flying Association
- Registered owner
- Mh Air Ventures LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- PAE · Seattle Paine Fld Intl, runway 16R/34L, 9,010 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 8, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 6,502 total · 61 in this make and model · 6,337 as pilot in command · 194 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 4, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 97 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 8 knots, gusting 3
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Icing
- Unknown
- Turbulence
- Unknown
- Observed at
- KPAE
- METAR
- METAR KPAE 272153Z 23007KT 10SM CLR 23/14 A3002
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 20, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.1 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.