# Incident 20240107000119I: Lancair Company LC42-550FG, Nashville, TN, January 7, 2024

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 7, 2024, 22:48 local time
- Place: Nashville, TN
- Airport: John C Tune
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Taxi
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.1830° N, 86.8865° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at JOHN C TUNE (JWN), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.1830&lon=-86.8865&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6503C, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6503C) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Lancair LC42-550FG (registry code 5150002, https://openairdocs.org/model/lancair-lc42-550fg) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental IO-550 series (registry code 17042, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-io-550-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: LANCAIR COMPANY LC42-550FG
- Reported engine: CONT MOTOR IO-550 SERIES
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot
- Pilot flight hours: 2,400 total, 1,100 in this make and model, 20 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20240107000119I

## Narrative

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

PILOT WAS TAXIING AIRCRAFT TO RUNWAY 20 ON TAXIWAY ALPHA FOR A VFR DEPARTURE. HE ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED HIS CELLPHONE IN THE PLANE. WHEN HE BENT DOWN TO PICK IT UP, HE INADVERTENTLY DEPARTED THE TAXIWAY AND BECAME STUCK IN THE MUD. THE FBO WAS CALLED, AND THE AIRCRAFT WAS RECOVERED BY GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT.  AIRCRAFT WAS TOWED TO THE FBO. THE FBO THEN RETURNED TO THE TAXIWAY AND SWEPT OFF THE DEBRIS. NO DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

## Other reports on N6503C (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20040210001809A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20040210001809A), Feb 10, 2004: Lancar LC42550FG (N6503C), Redmond, OR, Substantial damage. (-23) On 02/10/2004 at 10:00 am PST, N6503C, a Lancair columbia 350, landed hard on runway 10 @krdm. The commercial rated student recalled that he had chopped…

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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