- Date
- June 6, 2012, 16:10 local (Jun 7, 2012, 00:10 UTC)
- Place
- Platinum, AK
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N9874MCessna 207A
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 26, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA Anchorage FSDO
- FAA report
- 20120606012629A
- Case key
- 83887
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Probable cause
The pilot inadvertently taxied the airplane into a ditch.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot was taxiing the airplane through an unmarked ramp area to an adjacent taxiway when he inadvertently taxied into a ditch, which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane’s right wing. The operator stated that the accident could have been prevented had the ramp and taxiway edges been marked with lights or cones.
Factual narrative
The pilot was taxiing the airplane through an unmarked ramp area to an adjacent taxiway when he inadvertently taxied into a ditch, sustaining substantial damage to the right wing. In the recommendation section of the NTSB Accident/Incident Reporting Form 6120.1, the operator stated that the accident could have been prevented had the ramp and taxiway edges been marked with lights or cones.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9874M
- Reported as
- Cessna 207A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20700745
- Airframe hours
- 22,666
- Engine
- Cont Motor IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Grant Aviation
- Registered owner
- Alaska Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 31, 2012 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- PABE · Bethel, AK
- Destination
- PAPM · Platinum, AK
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- PAPM · Platinum
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 15, 2012
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,871 total · 827 in this make and model · 184 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.06 inHg
- Observed at
- PAPM
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 5, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 743 KB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N9874M · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.