- Date
- December 23, 1992, 19:47 local (23:47 UTC)
- Place
- Juneau, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N8739BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report August 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19921223053779A
- Case key
- 5857
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
Improper airport ramp operations, specifically, the vehicle driver's operation of a loaded forklift near taxiing aircraft and standing aircraft.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
A ramp forklift carrying an aircraft 'igloo' container collided with the right wing of an aircraft which had just begun its taxi. The pilot observed the forklift moving in reverse from his right just before the impact and stopped the aircraft and pulled the mixture to idle cutoff. The airport ramp was ice and snow covered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8739B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-36439
- Airframe hours
- 4,953
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kenneth R. Tyler
- Registered owner
- Dawn Rossit & Kenneth Tyler
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 26, 1992 · 93 hours before
- Destination
- HNS · Haines, AK
- Airport
- JNU · Juneau
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
- 32
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,690 total · 800 in this make and model · 6,524 as pilot in command · 220 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 330° at 4 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 19 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JNU, 1 nm away
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 N8739B · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.