- Date
- May 14, 2014, 20:50 local (May 15, 2014, 04:50 UTC)
- Place
- Aniak, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N1275NCessna 208B
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 20140514008469A
- Case key
- 89353
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a forklift while taxiing.
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
After unloading the airplane, the pilot did a walk around, then started the engine. As he began taxiing for takeoff, he misjudged the distance from the horizontal stabilizer and a fork lift that was parked near the cargo door. The horizontal stabilizer hit the forklift sustaining substantial damage. The operator stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
After unloading the airplane, the pilot did a walk around, then started the engine. As he began taxiing for takeoff, he misjudged the distance from the horizontal stabilizer and a fork lift that was parked near the cargo door. The horizontal stabilizer hit the forklift sustaining substantial damage. The operator stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1275N
- Reported as
- Cessna 208B (B)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 208B0756
- Built
- 1999
- Airframe hours
- 14,608
- Engine
- P&W PT6A SER, turbo prop
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Hageland Aviation Services Inc, doing business as RAVN Alaska DBA Ravn Connect
- Registered owner
- Icecap LLC Trustee
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- AAIP · May 13, 2014
- Departed
- ANI · Aniak, AK
- Destination
- BET · Bethel, AK
- Airport
- ANI · Aniak
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 35
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 26, 2013
- Flight hours
- 6,101 total · 2,002 in this make and model · 5,349 as pilot in command · 246 in the last 90 days · 83 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.36 inHg
- Observed at
- PANI
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 18, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 791 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.