- Date
- November 24, 2010, 21:25 local (Nov 25, 2010, 03:25 UTC)
- Place
- Lubbock, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N182DGCessna 182M
- Defining event
- Taxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20101124055729A
- Case key
- 78351
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 pilot's inadequate visual lookout resulting in a collision with an airport sign.
Findings · 1
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
According to the pilot, while taxiing to the ramp, he observed the lineman motioning him towards a parking area. He taxied straight towards the lineman, and the airplane departed the taxiway, and struck an airport sign. The cowling was torn, the skin of the fuselage was buckled, and the fuselage skin was wrinkled two to three inches aft of the firewall. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
According to the written statement submitted by the pilot, while taxiing to the ramp, he observed the lineman motioning him towards a parking area. The pilot taxied straight towards the lineman, departed the taxiway, and struck an airport sign. The damage to the airplane was first reported to the Federal Aviation Administration and NTSB after the airplane was sold. The cowling was torn, the skin of the fuselage was buckled, and the fuselage skin was wrinkled two to three inches aft of the firewall. The pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N182DG
- Reported as
- Cessna 182M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18260003
- Airframe hours
- 5,765
- Engine
- Cont Motor O-470 SERIES, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 2, 2010
- Departed
- KMDD · Midland, TX
- Destination
- KLBB · Lubbock, TX
- Airport
- KLBB · Lubbock Preston Smith
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
- 53
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 1, 2009
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,756 total · 1,631 in this make and model · 1,705 as pilot in command · 52 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 260° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 23,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 10 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.70 inHg
- Observed at
- KLBB, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 14, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 512 KB 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.
Other investigations on N182DG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.