- Date
- December 15, 2022, 10:56, time zone not recorded
- Place
- Denton, TX · Denton Enterprise Airport
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Defining events
- Taxi: Ground collisionTaxi: Ground collision
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA North Texas FSDO
- FAA report
- 20221215023202A
- Case key
- 106464
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 failure to maintain clearance from another airplane while taxing in the run-up area.
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.
N221MF · Cessna 172M
N21462 · Cessna 182
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.
N221MF · Cessna 172M
N21462 · Cessna 182
Analysis
The pilot taxing N21462 stated he did not turn sharply enough when he applied power to position the airplane in the run-up area, and the airplane’s right wing struck the vertical stabilizer of N221MF which was stopped in the run-up area. The pilot of N21462 stated that his foot slipped and was not on the brake during the turn. N221MF sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, and N21462 sustained minor damage to the right-wing tip and outboard leading edge. The pilot of N21462 said that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that precluded normal operations.
Aircraft · 2
- Registration
- N221MF
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267380
- Built
- 1976
- Engine
- Lycoming 0-320 SERIES, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- US Aviation Academy
- Registered owner
- Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- DTO · Denton Enterprise
- Equipment
- Unknown
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.
- Registration
- N21462
- Reported as
- Cessna 182 (P)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18261646
- Built
- 1972
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
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 · 3
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor, aircraft N221MF
- Age
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- October 10, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 691 total · 624 as pilot in command · 105 in the last 90 days · 42 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N221MF
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 27, 2022
- Seat
- Front
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 108 total · 108 in this make and model · 47 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Pilot, aircraft N21462
- Age
- 39
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 19, 2021
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 111 total · 34 in this make and model · 75 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 9 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.09 inHg
- Observed at
- KDTO, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KDTO 151653Z 31009G17KT 260V330 10SM CLR 09/M03 A3009 RMK AO2 SLP189 T00941028
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 17, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.