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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 182S · Hayward, WI · December 20, 2024

Date
December 20, 2024 · 13:00 local
Place
Hayward, WI
Airport
Sawyer County
Phase of flight
Taxi
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N266ME
Reported as
Cessna 182S
Reported engine
Lycoming IO-540 series
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Other injuries
0
Pilot’s certificate
Private pilot
Pilot’s flight hours
1,800 total860 in this make and model36 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry 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.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot was taxing on snow covered, patchy iced taxiway and could not negotiate the sharp turn to the left due to the wind pushing the aircraft. The right tire caught the taxiway edge and pulled the aircraft off to the right into the grass resulting in a propeller strike and cracked nose gear fairing.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT WAS TAXING ON SNOW COVERED, PATCHY ICED TAXIWAY AND COULD NOT NEGOTIATE THE SHARP TURN TO THE LEFT DUE TO THE WIND PUSHING THE AIRCRAFT. THE RIGHT TIRE CAUGHT THE TAXIWAY EDGE AND PULLED THE AIRCRAFT OFF TO THE RIGHT INTO THE GRASS RESULTING IN A PROPELLER STRIKE AND CRACKED NOSE GEAR FAIRING.