THE DTSB
Pending.
Key facts
- DateDecember 23, 2025
- Local time9:20 AM
- LightDay
- WeatherVMC
- Phase of flightUnknown
- People on board1
- Fatalities1
Accident Location
- City, State
- Pole Butte, Oregon
- Latitude
- 42.847223
- Longitude
- -120.985556
Aircraft Info
- N Number
- N9540R
- Make
- Beechcraft
- Model
- K-35
- Category / Class
- Aircraft Single Engine Land
- Amateur Built
- No
Pilot Info
- Pilot in command
- Gorman, Jeffery Scott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Certification
- Unknown
- IFR rating
- No
- Medical
- 3rd Class Medical
- Flight school
- No
- Instructional flight
- No
Analysis
- Weather
- VMC
- Time of day
- Day
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Pilot error
- Unknown
- Pilot incapacitation
- Unknown
- People on board
- 1
- PIC fatality
- 1
- Total fatalities
- 1
- NTSB travel
- Unknown
- AQP category
- UNKNOWN →
Probable Cause
NTSB
None yet (final report not yet published).
Recommendation
THE DTSB
Pending.
NTSB
None issued. NTSB recommendations are rare and usually tied to high-profile accidents.
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