- Date
- December 27, 2002, 08:05 local (14:05 UTC)
- Place
- Nashville, TN
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N416ESCessna 182S
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 2, 2004
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Nashville FSDO
- Case key
- 56252
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot's failure to maintain visual lookout and his inattentiveness during taxi that resulted in an on ground collision with an embankment. A factor was the fog.
Analysis
According to the pilot the visibility was poor due to fog, while taxiing for takeoff. The pilot stated, he missed the turn on to runway 19. The airplane rolled off the end of the taxiway down a 25-foot embankment. The reported visibility at the airport was 4 miles at the time of the accident. The pilot did not report a mechanical problem with the airplane.
Factual narrative
On December 27, 2002, at 0805 central standard time, a Cessna 182S, N416ES, registered to and operated by Right Rudder LLC, rolled off the end of the taxiway down an embankment and nosed over at the John C. Tune Airport, in Nashville, Tennessee. The flight was operated under the provisions of Title 14 CFR Part 91, and instrument flight rules. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight plan was filed. The private pilot and right front seat passenger received minor injuries, the rear-seated passenger was not injured. The airplane sustained substantial damage.
According to the pilot the flight was taxiing for takeoff when the accident occurred. During the telephone interview, the pilot stated that visibility was poor due to fog, and while taxiing, he missed the turn to runway 19. The airplane rolled off the end of the taxiway down a 25-foot embankment. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted.
Examination of the airplane revealed the wings, fuselage and vertical stabilizer were damaged. The pilot did not report a mechanical problem with the airplane.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N416ES
- Reported as
- Cessna 182S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18280078
- Airframe hours
- 601
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 24, 2002 · 75 hours before
- Departed
- JWN · Nashville, TN
- Destination
- FXE · Ft Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JWN · John Tune, runway 19, 5,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
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
- 22
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- December 26, 2001
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 232 total · 232 in this make and model · 181 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 170° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Temperature
- 21 °F, dew point 21 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.38 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 20 nm away