- Date
- June 20, 2009, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cookson, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N60HPCessna 182
- Defining event
- Taxi-from runway: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 7, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Oklahoma City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20090620009909A
- Case key
- 74170
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the building while taxiing on a road.
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 pilot reported that after back-taxiing on the grass airstrip, he taxied onto an asphalt road between the airstrip and the hangar area on the northeast side of the airport. As he taxied on the road, he felt a "jolt." After stopping and exiting the airplane, he noted that the left wing had contacted the T-hangar. The pilot reported that he was informed by the airport manager that other aircraft had contacted the hangar in the same location. There are no paved taxiways on the airport and the building that was contacted is painted orange.
Factual narrative
On June 20, 2009, about 1030 central daylight time, a Cessna 182R, N60HP, struck a hangar with the left wingtip while taxiing after landing at the Tenkiller Lake Airpark (44M), Cookson, Oklahoma. The airplane was being operated by the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, Bethany, Oklahoma, as a visual flight rules public use flight, under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. The airplane was substantially damaged. The pilot, who was the only person on board, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan had been filed. The flight had originated at the Wiley Post Airport (PWA), Bethany, Oklahoma, at 0930. The pilot reported that after back taxiing on the grass airstrip, he taxied onto an asphalt road between the airstrip and the hangar area on the northeast side of the airport. As he taxied on the road, he felt a "jolt." After stopping and exiting the airplane, he noted that the left wing had contacted the T-hangar. The pilot reported that he was informed by the airport manager that other aircraft had contacted the hangar in the same location. A member of the airport commission stated that there are no paved taxiways at the airport and the surface the pilot was taxiing on is a road, which should not be used as a taxiway. In addition, the building that the airplane contacted is painted orange.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60HP
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18268454
- Airframe hours
- 8,550
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 235 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Public aircraft - state · Public use
- Operator
- Oklahoma Department Of Public Safety
- Registered owner
- Oklahoma Department Of Public Safety
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 1, 2008
- Departed
- PWA · Bethany, OK
- Destination
- 44M · Cookson, OK
- Airport
- 44M · Tenkiller Lake Airpark, runway 23, 2,600 × 75 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 31, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,000 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 13 knots, gusting 19
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.93 inHg
- Observed at
- KMKO, 20 nm away
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 1, 2010, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.