Spring Break to Remember (April 2025)

In this "Never Again" episode, a 21-year-old instrument rated multi-engine commercial pilot shares his harrowing experience of a sudden engine failure during a spring break trip from Kansas to Florida in a Cessna 182. Just three miles from his destination, the engine catastrophically failed, forcing him to execute an emergency landing at Panama City Airport (ECP). For questions or comments about this podcast, email podcasts@aopa.org Send us your Never Again and we may publish it in an issue of AOPA Pilot and share it on this podcast. Email pilot@aopa.org.

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Spring Break to Remember (April 2025) is an episode from AOPA Never Again by AOPA Podcasts.

This episode is 8:10 long.

This episode was published on Apr 29, 2025.

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