- Date
- May 19, 1999, 14:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Anchorage, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N3585TTaylorcraft F-19
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 2000
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19990519021499A
- Case key
- 46395
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Probable cause
The pilot misjudging the taxi clearance between the airplane's wingtip and the parked vehicle.
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
The pilot was taxiing on a 28 feet wide, uncontrolled, asphalt, shared road/taxiway. She attempted to taxi past a pickup truck that was parked on the edge of the road. The pilot said that she saw the truck, but misjudged the clearance from the airplane's left wing. The left wing contacted the truck, the airplane spun around, and the airplane dropped into a 2 feet deep ditch next to the road. The pilot said there were no anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On May 19, 1999, at 1430 Alaska daylight time, a Taylorcraft F-19 airplane, N3585T, sustained substantial damage when it collided with a parked vehicle while taxiing for takeoff at the Lake Hood Strip, Anchorage, Alaska. The solo private pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated under 14 CFR Part 91 as a personal flight to the pilot's cabin on Flathorn Lake, Alaska. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident, and no flight plan was filed.
The pilot told the NTSB investigator-in-charge (IIC) during an interview on May 21, and in her NTSB Pilot/Operator report, that she was taxiing from parking to the airstrip on an uncontrolled, shared, vehicle road/taxiway. She offset to the right to avoid a pickup truck parked at the edge of the taxiway. The road/taxiway is asphalt, 28 feet wide. The pilot told the IIC she misjudged the clearance, and the airplane's left wingtip contacted the luggage rack of the truck. The airplane spun around and dropped into a 2 feet deep ditch next to the road, damaging the left-rear spar. The pilot did not describe any preaccident anomalies with the airplane.
The pickup truck was not damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3585T
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft F-19
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- F-053
- Airframe hours
- 962
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Kathleen A. Haggstrom
- Registered owner
- Kathleen & Daryl Haggstrom
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 5, 1998 · 76 hours before
- Departed
- Z41
- Destination
- Flathorn Lake, AK
- Airport
- Z41 · Lake Hood Strip
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 364 total · 67 in this make and model · 318 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.