# Incident 20010818026629I: Cessna 182A, Mason, MI, August 18, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: August 18, 2001, 18:55 local time
- Place: Mason, MI
- Airport: Mason Jewett Field Airport
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Ground Taxi, Other Airplane
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 42.5658° N, 84.4232° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at MASON JEWETT FLD (TEW), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=42.5658&lon=-84.4232&mi=10
- Aircraft: N4987D, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N4987D) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 182A (registry code 2072704, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-182a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental O-470 series (registry code 17026, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-o-470-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 182A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 844 total, 340 in this make and model, 26 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010818026629I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON AUGUST 18, 2001, THE DETROIT FLIGHT STANDARDS DISTRICT OFFICE WAS INFORMED OF AN AIRCRAFT INCIDENT/ACCIDENT INVOLVING A COLLISION WITH A FUEL TRUCK IN MASON, MICHIGAN. THE AIRCRAFT INVOLVED WAS N4987D, A CESSNA 182A, SERIAL NUMBER 51087. THE AIRCRAFT IS LOCATED ON THE RAMP AT AEROGENESIS AVIATION. ACCORDING TO THE PILOT, MR. WILLIAM L. KEMP, AS HE TAXIED THE AIRCRAFT OVER TOWARDS THE TERMINAL AT MASON-JEWETT AIRPORT, HIS ATTENTION WAS PLACED ON THE PASSENGERS THAT WERE AWAITING HIS ARRIVAL. TO HIS SURPRISE, THERE WAS A FUEL TRUCK PARKED IN AN AREA THAT IT IS NOT NORMALLY PLACED. BY THE TIME THAT HE HAD NOTICED THE POSITION OF THE FUEL TRUCK, THE RIGHT WING TIP OF HIS AIRCRAFT HAS STRUCK THE TRUCK'S PASSENGER SIDE MIRROR. HE ADDED THAT HE HAD BEEN FLYING FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS QUITE EMBARASSED ABOUT THE WHOLE EVENT. ON AUGUST 21, 2001, UPON ARRIVING AT AEROGENESIS AVIATION, I WAS ASSISTED BY THE DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE, LESLIE OJALA. MR. OJALA INFORMED ME THAT HIS FACILITY HAD NOT BEEN TASKED WITH EVALUATING THE DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT. HE WAS UNSURE OF WHAT THE OWNER'S INTENTIONS WERE REGARDING AN EVALUATION, HOWEVER HE DID MENTION THAT THE OWNER IS A LICENSED AIRFRAME/POWERPLANT MECHANIC AND SUSPECTED THAT HE WOULD PERFORM HIS OWN INSPECTION. THE VISIBLE DAMAGE WAS WITH THE FORWARD PORTION OF THE RIGHT WING, NEAR THE WING TIP. THE WING TIP COVER SHOWED SIGNS OF BEING RIPPED OFF (RIVETS POPPED) ALONG WITH THE AILERON BEING DAMAGED. JOHN POWELL, A MECHANIC FOR AEROGENESIS, WAS ONE OF THE WITNESSES ON AUGUST 18TH, AND HAS PROVIDED A WRITTEN STATEMENT OF WHAT HE SAW WHEN THE AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH THE FUEL TRUCK. MR. POWELL HAS ALSO PROVIDED TWELVE PHOTOGRAPHS WHICH PROVIDES FURTHER DETAILS AS TO THE DAMAGE THAT WAS SUSTAINED BY THE AIRCRAFT AND THE FUEL TRUCK. (SEE ATTACHED ENVELOPE).^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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