- Date
- October 13, 2008, 10:00 local (14:00 UTC)
- Place
- Delphi, IN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N63366Cessna 172P
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- FAA report
- 20081013851459A
- Case key
- 69282
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
The student pilot's failure to maintain separation from a hangar building while taxiing. Contributing to the accident was the hangar building.
Findings · 3
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
The student pilot reported that the flight was conducted to meet with the examiner for a check ride. He stated that after arriving at the destination airport, while taxiing to a parking spot for the airplane, the right wing tip struck a hangar building. The pilot noted on his report that the right wing tip and wing spar were damaged.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that the flight was conducted to meet with the examiner for a check ride. He stated that after arriving at the destination airport, while taxiing to a parking spot for the airplane, the right wing tip struck a hangar building. The pilot noted on his report that the right wing tip and wing spar were damaged.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63366
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275426
- Airframe hours
- 11,439
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lafayette Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Lafayette Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 30, 2008
- Departed
- LAF · Lafayette, IN
- Destination
- 1I9 · Delphi, IN
- Airport
- 1I9 · Delphi Municipal Airport
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
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 64 total · 64 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.