WPR25FA208 · Piper PA-28-180
Piper PA-28-180 · Accident
From an unrecorded airport to EED · Las Vegas, NV
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Event
- NTSB case
- WPR25FA208
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Ongoing
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA-28-180
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N8375W
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Possible conflict
- From not recordedTo EED · Las Vegas, NV
- Aircraft age
- About 60 years (built 1965)
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Unknown
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On July 13, 2025, about 2128 Pacific daylight time, a Piper PA-28-180, N8375W, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Needles, California. Both pilots sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The operator reported that the two pilots rented the airplane to accumulate flight hours. Preliminary ADS-B data provided by a commercially available third-party service showed the airplane depart North Las Vegas Airport (VGT), Las Vegas, Nevada, at 1934 and subsequently land at Needles Airport (EED), Needles, California about one hour later. The operator then received an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) alert about 2133. Local law-enforcement officers observed a fire at 2140 and subsequently located the main wreckage about 1,425 ft southwest from the departure end of runway 20. The airplane came to rest inverted with thermal damage to the fuselage. The first identified point of contact (FIPC) was a ground scar about 225 ft north of the main wreckage, approximately 1,200 ft from the departure end of the runway. The debris path continued to the south with the propeller and hub assembly at the end of the debris path about 25 ft beyond the main wreckage. The total debris path spanned about 250 ft from the FIPC to the propeller. All major airplane components and control surfaces were located and identified within the debris path. The airplane was recovered to a secure facility for further examination.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR25FA208
- Event ID
- 20250714200521
- Case number
- WPR25FA208
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 2025-07-14.
- API snapshot SHA-256: ce0c4dc06f7d7fa5a53b040c5fa8982478735d00c67fbd62bc3aaa3e8b3fd783; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:06:37.787Z.