- Date
- August 8, 1984, 16:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Shelbyville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N35849Cessna 177RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840808040409A
- Case key
- 6521
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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 acft collided with a parked truck on a taxiway en route to takeoff. The plt said he observed the parked truck on thetaxiway. There was another taxiway available but the plt continued on the congested one with the acft wing overlapping the truck by about 7 ft. the collision of the wing against the truck turned the acft into the truck and the prop also made contact. A witness stated that the plt was not wearing corrective lenses at the time of the accident. His last 3rd class medical certificate issued on 7-7-82 had a limitation that he must wear corrective lenses while exercising the privileges of the certificate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35849
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG1060
- Airframe hours
- 1,521
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-AIB60, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Staver/Meyering
- Registered owner
- Staver/Meyering
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 16, 1983 · 50 hours before
- Destination
- 8A4 · Mccullum, GA
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Expired
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 138 total · 138 in this make and model · 85 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 40 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.