- Date
- October 17, 2025, 14:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Paris, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1755APiper PA-18
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 9, 2026
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20251017015409A
- Case key
- 201897
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings.
Analysis
The flight instructor of the tailwheel equipped airplane reported that on landing the pilot receiving instruction leveled the airplane and the airplane bounced. The pilot receiving instruction attempted a go-around, however the airplane touched down a second time with the nose of the airplane to the right of the runway centerline. The flight instructor took the flight controls from the pilot receiving instruction, but the airplane departed the right side of the runway and ground looped to the left, which resulted in substantial damage to the right wing. The pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1755A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18-1314
- Built
- 1952
- Airframe hours
- 3,900
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 107 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 1, 2025
- Departed
- AOC · Arco, ID
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 1U7 · Bear Lake County, runway 16/34, 4,590 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Handheld GPS, Satellite tracking device
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
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 135 total · 25 in this make and model · 60 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 51
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Waiver time limited special
- Last flight review
- May 15, 2025
- Seat
- Rear
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 5,407 total · 350 in this make and model · 5,220 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 9 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- 1U7
- METAR
- METAR K1U7 172115Z AUTO 27009KT 10SM CLR 11/01 A3004 RMK A01
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 9, 2026, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.8 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.