- Date
- October 10, 2025, 12:37 local (19:37 UTC)
- Place
- Phoenix, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5806TCessna 185C
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 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
- 20251010014849A
- Case key
- 201847
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with a left crosswind.
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 of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that, while practicing touch-and-go landings, the airplane veered left during the landing roll. The pilot attempted to correct with right rudder and left aileron input; however, the airplane ground looped to the left and nosed over, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing and vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunction or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. At the time of the accident, the pilot was landing the airplane on runway 7L with wind from 360° at 13 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5806T
- Reported as
- Cessna 185C
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 185-0706
- Built
- 1964
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 20, 2024 · 29.1 hours before
- Airport
- DVT · Phoenix Deer Valley Airport, runway 7L, 4,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 67
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight engineer
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 9, 2023
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 23,910 total · 123 in this make and model · 2,100 as pilot in command · 3.5 in the last 90 days · 0.1 in the last 30 days · 0.1 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot-rated passenger
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- BasicMed, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.91 inHg
- Observed at
- KDVT, 1 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KDVT 101953Z 36013KT 10SM SCT110 30/19 A2991 RMK AO2 SLP105 T03000189=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 4, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 186 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 N5806T · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.